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bjbj< How long have you been in this business? 6 years How many lights did you start with?
And since then how much have you expanded? Currently I have 100 light points What are
the prospects of expanding more in the future? There are certain financial problems I m facing
but I will expand. How much is the rent cost of each battery? 1 day 1 day = Rs 15, runs
for 7-8 hours When do you collect the lights back? I collect them back the same night,
late at night You, yourself? No, I have my boys, I have hired three boys for this purpose
and an auto rickshaw 11 to 11 30 they return it. Did you do any business before this? Yeah
I did, and I still carry on with my tailoring business also Customers? Range from fruit
guys, vegetables, peanuts, chaat walas, dosa/idly, snack guys.. Takes me two hours to deliver
the lights. So from 5 pm -7 pm to give them and 11 pm-1 am to collect them all back..
So I get to sleep only at 1 o clock at night. My workers that I have hired do only this
work so I have to pay then 4000 rupees each monthly so that they keep working for me All
my batteries fit in one auto tempo and it take about 15 min to load and unload with
3 boys. The problems I face I have to sleep at 1 am! I cant take the lights back in the
morning because I fear they will use the battery all night and day drain the charge out completely,
that s bad for the battery and for me. It s the biggest problem the customers think
anyway I m paying 15 Rupees for this so why shouldn t I use it the whole night? He immediately
keeps the batteries on charge at night and they charge the next morning to evening Acid
problem. We need to put acid inside so the workers hands become rough and it s painful.
Sometime the fuse gets damaged or the light stops working so we have to be on call all
the time, the second the customer calls saying that there is a problem ii have to attend
to the problem right away by delivering another light or batters for the day (I have 20 spare
systems, totally 80 customers and 20 spare) Some people take two lights, bigger battery
people take more than 2) Customers really like this light because it s not messy like
kerosene lights and messy polluting gas lights, they put it only and it s clean, neat and
bright. So how would you describe your business? My business is going well in general. yeah
there are difficulties in this business I overcome everyday but that s the difficulty
in any business Im very happy with selco, the main challenge is to set up everything
and keep everything working as a system once that s done.. somehow it will keep working..
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