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4,000 workers at DPC site without jobsS Ravindran At least 4,000 workers at the site of the Dabhol Power Company are now without jobs. These are mainly semi-skilled labour and only a fraction of them are from Guhagarh Taluka in Ratnagiri district, the site of the controversial power project. "About 4,000 to 5,000 workers are jobless. The contracts of most of them were coming to an end anyway as the construction is more or less complete. However, the present uncertainty surrounding the project has led to an earlier exit," said V S Nathu, the BJP MLA who represents Guhagarh Taluka. When contacted, a senior DPC executive said, "this is mainly because during the monsoon a number of workers are told to leave as construction is not possible anyway. Besides, a major part of the construction is now over". A total of about 12,000 contract workers were employed at the project site at the height of the project construction. They were not direct employees of DPC but of the engineering, procurement and construction contractor Bechtel and various other sub-contractors like Besix, UB Engineering and Paharpur Cooling Towers. Nathu also said that construction had come to a grinding halt at the site in the last few weeks. The DPC executive, however, denied that construction had come to a halt though he agreed there had been a slowdown as lenders had stopped disbursing funds in the last three months. YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO SEE:
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