North India had experienced a no power day for two continuous days and the crisis has become worse after the east was affected. To join and exacerbate the intensity of the problem, Northeastern grid had tripped too causing great loss to over 19 states. At around 2 pm Power Minister Sushil Kumar had promised that the power would be restored to normalcy within 90 minutes. This has caused great problem to over 600 million Indians. There were several hundreds of trains halted in between their stations. Delhi Metro had resumed services but had to suffer the lack of pwer again with the fresh outage of power for more than an hour.

For over 11 years, this is the worst ever power cut in India. Only seven states were involved in the outages yesterday. Today's power disruption has been named among the world's largest power outages which started at around 1:30 pm. The Northern, Eastern, and Northeastern power supplies collapsed one after the other with little interval.

Allegedly the cause was said to the be power consumption of more than assigned share by Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. Shinde had asked the states using more than designated power to stop the consumption. They would be punished he said.
At 1:30pm, only 40 MW of power was being supplied to Delhi which usually requires around 4000 MW of power bringing the city to a halt in most areas.

The states hit today are: Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, J&K, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, UP, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi and the seven North Eastern states.

100 MWs of emergency power is being provided to VVIP areas in the capital. The primary aim of restoration of the power would be targeting the hospitals, traffic signals, and metro.

This incident was also pointed out by numerous international news websites adding to the shame and highlighting the weak infrastructure in the country apart from the lack of capacity to meet the nation's energy needs.

(AW- Anil)