Residents of the Mahalaxmi Co-operative Housing Society, a mammoth Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) settlement on DP Road off Pandurang Budhkar Road in Worli, have been literally living in the dark for a decade. There are no streetlights on this stretch of densely packed street, which is roughly 700m in length.

Santosh Gupta, a resident of the Mahalaxmi Housing Society since it came into being in 2014, said, “We have been waiting for 10 years for streetlights, which is quite unbelievable. This society has seven buildings that cumulatively house 1800 people. We negotiate this stretch late every evening by torchlight or with the light of our mobile phones. There is a large number of bikes on this road which people find very difficult to walk on.