At the end of their patience with regard to the power supply, locals in Raigad district have blamed the outsourcing of power maintenance to private agencies and contractors for the delay in repair work. With no material and spare parts required for the restoration of power, many households in the cyclone-hit district continue to operate in the dark, more than a week after the incident.

"We have no power nor potable water for more than a week now. Local shops have run out of candles too a R5 candle is being sold for R50. We now cook once a day and eat before sunset," said Nizamuddin Sarkar, an activist from Tol village of Mahad taluka. "I had arranged for some manpower from our village 500 houses to clear fallen trees and debris so that the restoration team could reinstall damaged electric poles and high tension lines but only 400 houses have managed to get the supply with 100, including mine still without power," he said, adding that the local deputy engineer supervising restoration work said that he had only eight technicians and sixty villages to attend to. "It is unfair that suddenly the focus has shifted to other areas," he said.