Mumbai’s chawl residents negotiate with ‘light mafias’ for power supply

Mumbai’s chawl residents negotiate with ‘light mafias’ for power supply

[ad_1] “We pay Rs 600 every month whether we get electricity or not. We used to pay more but there are now two electricity mafias competing in this area,” says Ajuma Sheikh, a 63-year-old social worker who stays in Patra chawl in Mumbai’s Mankhurd suburb. For the past 25 years, she has been caught between … Read more