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India Grid Collapse Causes Blackout
By RAJESH MAHAPATRA
Associated Press Writer
July 31, 2002, 10:52 AM EDT
NEW DELHI, India -- Authorities struggled Wednesday to restore electricity to
five Indian states -- home to 235 million people -- after they were plunged into
darkness overnight in one of the biggest power shutdowns in years.
Hospital services were suspended, trains stopped running and factories shut down
in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Goa, in
central and western parts of the country. Some water supplies also dried up as
pumps stopped working.
"We hope to bring the situation to normal by evening," R.P. Singh, chairman of
Power Grid Corp., which oversees the grid network in the country, told The
Associated Press.
Power was restored Wednesday morning in most cities and towns, after 12 hours
without electricity. But power was yet to return to thousands of villages, he
said.
The blackout happened after Madhya Pradesh state tried to pull more electricity
from the national grid than the network could handle, Singh said.
Madhya Pradesh is suffering from a drought and as a result its hydroelectric
dams have been producing less than enough electricity to meet the state's needs.
Electric trains were stranded across the states, many coming to a halt midway
between the cities of Bombay, Madras, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
"We were stuck in complete darkness in the middle of nowhere for almost five
hours," passenger Mukesh Patel said.
Trains to New Delhi from western and southern India were delayed by at least six
to 10 hours, said Anil Saxena, a spokesman of the Ministry of Railways.
Power grid failures are not uncommon in India during the summer months due to
high demands for electricity and limited supply.
Copyright © 2002, The Associated Press