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Mumbai power cut: Many areas in city under dark due to power failure

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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.

Vivek Bhavsar
Vivek Bhavsar
Vivek Bhavsar is the Editor-in-Chief. He is a senior journalist with more than 30 years of experience in political and investigative journalism. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheNews21. He has worked with leading English mainline dailies, including The Asian Age and Free Press Journal, and also carries the experience of strides in leading regional newspapers like Lokmat and Saamana. During his stints at reputed vernacular and English-language dailies, he has demonstrated his versatility in covering the gamut of beats from policy-making to urban ecology.  While reporting extensively on socio-political issues across Maharashtra, he found his métier in political journalism as an expert on government policy-making. He made his mark as an investigative journalist with exposes of government corruption and deft analyses of the decisions made in Mantralaya, as exemplified in his series of reports on the multi-crore petrochemical project at Nanar in the state’s Konkan region, which ultimately compelled the government to scrap the enterprise.

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