The outage, one of the world’s most widespread power failures, occurred
as two electricity grids that service about half of India’s population
collapsed, the Associated Press reported. On Monday, a grid covering
eight states in northern India had collapsed, affecting about 300
million people for several hours.
Although officials managed to restore the grid by Monday evening, it
collapsed again Tuesday afternoon, AP cited an official at the Uttar
Pradesh Power Corp. in northern India as saying.
At about the same time, the eastern grid also failed, the report quoted
another power official in the eastern Indian state of Orissa as saying.
Tuesday’s outage brought the metro rail system in the capital New Delhi
to a halt and forced office buildings to run on backup generators,
Reuters reported
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