Power restored in India after world’s biggest blackout‎

Officials said Wednesday the power was back on in northern and eastern India, where Tuesday’s historic outage affected people in 20 states.

More than 600 million people were affected by the power cut after three electricity grids collapsed, one for a second consecutive day.

The power failure caused havoc, with whole cities grinding to a halt and transport and other services badly hit.

The breakdowns in the northern, eastern and north-eastern grids affected 20 of India’s 28 states.
 
The blackout was the second in as many days, after a smaller outage Monday cut power to more than 300 million people.
Indian Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde blamed Indian states for triggering the grid failure by drawing more than their allotted share of power. But the chief of India’s Power Grid Corporation cautioned it was too soon to know for sure.

Limited power failures are common in India, but analysts say such large-scale outages highlight the weaknesses in the country’s infrastructure as India strives to become an economic superpower.
 
Source: www.timesofearth.com / Agencies