More than 300 million people left without electricity today morning after a massive grid failure in Delhi. The big part of northern India left in dark at 2 am in the morning.
This type of power crisis was faced in northern part of the country after 11-years. The national capital and seven states wet out about 2am today morning
Talking to media, 32-year-old Keshav Shah, who works in a multinational software company 30 km outside Delhi, said, “I’m 45 minutes late for work. First, no power since 2 in the morning, then no water to take a shower and now the metro is delayed by 13 minutes after being stuck in traffic for half an hour.”
He said, “As if I wasn’t dreading Monday enough, this had to happen.”
However, back-up power supply was given to hospitals and transport systems. Now, electricity is normal in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. Other states hit with power crisis are Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
Ram Nayak, the head of state-run Power Grid Corporation, said, “We’ll find out the reason and see that such kind of things are avoided in the future.”
He said, “The biggest priority is to connect essential loads back to public transport systems, whether it be the rail or the airport, hospitals and other places.”
Reports have said that about 40 percent of Indians, or 500 million people, lack electricity.
