Finally the summer heat is here. A bit too early, month of Feb is still on. Surely we all will be boiling in Mumbai pot by mid March. Besides the heat, Mumbaikars are mostly likely to suffer even more thanks to power crisis.

Inorder to save us from intense misery, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport ^[1] (BEST) has come up with three proposals, which it hopes will tide over the shortfall of 300 megawatts (MW), expected to go up to 500 MW in summer.

1) The Undertaking has proposed to ask cinema halls to stop shows from 6 pm to 12 midnight. This means that people will be deprived of the 6 pm and 9 pm movies.

3) Commercial establishments have been asked to set their temperatures above 26°C and delay switching on ACs by one hour. Similarly, they should switch them off an hour earlier each day.

The BEST is going to table its proposals before the BEST committee today, following which it will be submitted to the technical committee comprising representatives of BEST, Reliance, Tata and MSEB.

However, its very unlikely that any of the following recommendations would be approved. I mean come to think of it, the suggestions if applied would put people out of business and deprive Mumbaikars from their daily dose of entertainment.

Though in my opinion, the first and second suggestions are ridiculous. However the third one can surely be worked upon.

Read rest of the story, here ^[2].