Cascading effect of industrial decay
Till a couple of years ago Alang near Bahvnagar was a busy industrial township famous for its ship breaking industry. Ships stopped coming for break up and production fell down to 200 MTs from 15000 MTs and the worst hit are the re rolling mills whose supply of steel has been stopped and the oxygen plants which are now struggling for oxygen to survive. There were 175 oxygen plants; barely 5 survive now.