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| Power blackout: Blame game begins; |
| Power blackout: Blame game begins; Veerappa Moily takes charge of ministry
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| INDIA
, 1-August-2012
1:41:26 AM |
| After the massive power failure, the big blame game. The Centre has come down sharply on Punjab, Haryana and UP saying they overdrew 4000 MW of electricity and that caused the tripping of three grids in a cascade effect yesterday, leaving 600 million people without power. The states deny that their actions triggered the huge power collapse. Till that argument is settled, the power situation is likely to be precarious
This morning, the power situation in UP, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and J&K is almost normal; it is normal in Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, the seven North East states and Delhi; the situation in Odisha is better and updates are awaited from Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. All these 19 states witnessed total power failure for many hours after 1 pm yesterday, when first the Northern grid and then the Eastern and the North Eastern grids collapsed. There was chaos; hundreds of trains were stalled, the Delhi Metro did not run for over an hour, miners were trapped for hours.
Veerappa Moily, who took charge of the ministry today, said he would set up 24x7 monitoring to ensure constant vigil against power crashes and promised restructuring of state electricity regulatory boards
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has reportedly summoned top officials of five states - Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Jammu & Kashmir - which drew more power than they were allowed to. The regulatory body has asked these officials of the state energy departments to personally appear before it on August 14.
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