Click to play videoThane: While Mumbaikars have been assured a powercut-free April, the city still remains the exception to the rule in India.
In the neighbouring Thane, tempers are soaring with rising temperatures. "It's very hot. It's unbearable. I can't sit, sleep or even eat. But I have no choice,” says a Thane resident Naniben J Soni.
Ninety-year-old Soni is just one of the Thane residents who are trying to furiously keep their cool. But as Thane reels under one its marathon powercuts, many like her daughter-in-law Seema Champaneri are less forgiving.
"We have a five-hour power cut daily. I am a working woman and my schedule has gone haywire!" says Seema.
A few blocks away, real estate consultant Mahesh Ahuja of Dreamz Housing is sweating bullets and it's clearly not just the heat, but the adverse impact of the power cuts on property prices that has him in a tizzy.
"People are going for inverters. But in the long run, builders will have to provide 100 per cent power back-up, as it is not just the residential users but also the commercial users who suffer heavy losses,” he says.
Back in the Soni’s household, the man of the family minces no words.
"Mumbai has power 24 hours a day, while we in Thane suffer. I feel cheated by the government!" says Nakul V Champaneri.
Champaneri’s family is just one of Thane's four lakh families that have learned to adjust their daily routine around power cuts. But the anger and frustration at being treated like second class citizens is palpable.
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