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Mumbai: Several areas in Mumbai along with various parts of Maharashtra are facing the power outage on Monday morning from around 10. 05 am.
According to the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) electric power failure due to Central grid failure of TATA Power at Kalwa.
It will take 45 min to 1 hr to restore the supply. Due to this, failure of Electric Supply all over Mumbai City & Suburb Train traffic of all lines Central, Eastern & Western disrupted.
“Due to grid failure, the supply of power in the city is disrupted,” a BEST spokesperson confirmed.
“The electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure. Inconveniences are regretted,” it posted on Twitter.
There is multiple tripping of lines and transformers ( Kalwa-padghe and Kharghar ICTs) supplying power to the Mumbai system .
360 MW supply in Mumbai and suburbs affected. Restoration under process
Power cut across Mumbai-Thane.
Meanwhile, BMC has directed the SWM transport garage to provide enough diesel to the hospitals, so that hospitals can get power supply from generators to avoid power failure in hospitals especially in Intensive Care Unit’s (ICU).
“All the hospitals to contact their respective SWM transport GARAGE officers to get enough supply of diesel for at least eight hours so that there are no power failures in hospitals especially ICUs.
Disaster control to keep stand-by private mobile DG set vehicles handy within next one hour in case power failure continues beyond two hours”, said BMC commissioner, Iqbal Singh Chahal.
Taking to Twitter, several residents complained of a sudden electricity outage in several parts.
