HALF OF INDIA is de-energized
Northern grid has stopped working on Monday, July 30. By evening, it was rebuilt, but on Tuesday there was a new alarm. At the same time `collapsed #39;eastern power grid.
Together, the two systems serve about half of India, with a population of 1.2 billion people. Hospitals and emergency services operate on backup generators. Paralyzed the metro in Delhi.
Several hundred miners were trapped underground in India in the state of West Bengal in the district of Burdwan, said the Chief Minister of Mamata Bannerjee. According to her, every effort is made to restore the power supply, which is necessary for the lifts stopped in the underground workings. It also announced Tuesday in West Bengal, a day off due to a power outage in the state of closed schools and government offices.
Supply of electricity in the Delhi metropolitan area fell from 4,000 MW to 40 MW.
In north India suspended the movement of trains more than 500, including more than 300 passengers, in which there are 300,000 people. With Impaired urban traffic signal system works. More than 10,000 employees of traffic police displayed on the streets of cities to regulate the movement, including the 4000 - in New Delhi.
Delhi International Airport runs smoothly, the air traffic is not blocked.
According to preliminary information, the energy crisis began after the four northern states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, have exceeded the rate of energy consumption. After that shortages have spread to neighboring territories.
The most difficult situation is now in the states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Orissa.
