 "A lone employee works at the Sahasra Electronics main production facility, inside Noida SEZ. Photo: Dalip Kumar")
The dust never seems to settle in Noida. As the infamous north Indian summer sets in, the afternoon haze blocks out the huge, empty residential tower complexes dotting the road between Noida and Greater Noida.
Developers of some of these unfinished properties had last year planned to sell the adjoining plots to the government under a proposal creating two major industrial hubs.
A scheduled opening in May is now out of the question, says Manoj, a tea seller. He points to rows of trucks laden with building materials, cordoned off and abandoned on the road for weeks now.
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