Power supply restored in several parts of Mumbai

Power supply has been restored to several areas in Mumbai, “Power supply to all essential services in Mumbai,Mumbai Suburbs, Kalyan, Thane,Palghar & New Mumbai have been restored. Non essential services will also be restored shortly,” Raut tweeted. He had said earlier in the day that the failure was caused by “technical problems” during maintenance work. Maharashtra’s energy minister Nitin Raut said on Monday after a grid failure caused a widespread outage in the state capital and its suburbs affecting train services, delaying exams and causing traffic jams. He had said earlier in the day that the failure was caused by “technical problems” during maintenance work.The minister said the trouble emanated from Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company (MSETCL) facilities during a planned maintenance work. Tata Power, which is into both generation and distribution, attributed the power outage to a simultaneous substation tripping at 10:10am at state-run transmission company MSETCL’s two substations in the suburbs of Kalwa and Kharghar. Hospital services cripled and several colleges affiliated with the University of Mumbai (MU) had to reschedue their examinations.

Trains resumed operations.“Trains between CSMT-Panvel on Harbour Line have resumed. We’re trying to restore services between CSMT-Kalyan, CSMT-Karjat/Kasara. Long-distance trains from Mumbai rescheduled, and incoming trains regulated at interchange points, Chief public relations officer (CPRO),” the Central Railway tweeted. Mumbai traffic police said the signals and CCTV cameras stopped working and made manning traffic difficult. The control room officers stated that although there were no traffic jams reported, vehicles moved at a snail’s pace, especially on the Western Expressway 8am onwards.Reports said several employees in an upscale business complex were stuck in an elevator as power snapped. After a few difficult minutes, the employees were safely evacuated, as per a video doing rounds on social media. BSE and NSE, the benchmark stock exchanges, also reported power outages but added that their operations were continuing normally.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has ordered an immediate probe into the large-scale outage which is unprecedented for the country's financial capital.Union Power Minister RK Singh said a central team is being sent to Mumbai to find out the cause of the outage. "The power supply (in Mumbai) has been restored substantially, out of 2000 MW which went off, about 1900 MW has been restored, the remaining will be restored soon. The national grid is fine, the problem happened in some parts of the state grid," he said.