Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Dahanu: The Cool Place


Dahanu is a pleasant place situated near coast of Arabian Sea it is about 150km. away from Mumbai (towards north). Having population of around 1.5 Lacs, people of Dahanu have employment and business opportunities from various resources such as fishing, farming, and small and large scale industries. Dahanu is famous for chickoo farming

Major attraction over here is a beach also called as ‘Parnaka beach’ which is just 5 km. far from Dahanu Railway station. There are various religious functions held every year such as ‘mahalaxmi Yatra’ held at Charoti about 24 kms. From Dahanu it comes in month of April which attracts guests from local places as well as outside population. Muslims celebrate ‘Urs’ (fair) held at ‘Peer Shaikh Baba’Dargah in the month of January.
There have been various Industrial establishments in recent years.
Dahanu has got industrial location called ‘Vadkun’ where various small scale industries can be found. There to large scale establishments the one is Universal Capsules Ltd Dahanu also knows as ACG LTD situated at Ashagad Village about 5 kms from Dahanu its a empty hard gelatin capsules manufactururing plant the other large company is 2 X 250 MW Thermal Power Station which belongs to Reliance Infrastructure Ltd situated at Agwan village About 5km from Dahanu
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