Hours after a front-page report in mid-day highlighted how the Naigaon road overbridge was shrouded in darkness for a fortnight because the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) had defaulted on Rs 8-lakh power bills, on Saturday, the authorities swung into action and cleared the outstanding dues.

This is the first time that the MMRDA has paid the electricity bill for the crucial east-west connector in the last 30 months. mid-day’s report on the matter (“Naigaon’s only East-West link goes dark”) appeared yesterday. The same day, the dues were paid, and the Maharashtra State Electricity Department Co Ltd’s (MSEDCL) superintendent engineer asked his team to restore power supply to the 1.3-km link between Naigaon east and west.