MUMBAI: Train services came to a halt in the financial capital as a grid failure resulted in massive power outages across the megapolis Monday morning.
The exact reason for the failure was not immediately known, but Western Railway and the state-run discom supplying power to the island city, Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), blamed the fault on Tata Power.
Disaster control room run by the city civic body said there has been a “central grudge failure of Tata Power at Kalwa”, a suburb of the city, and it will take up to an hour to restore supply.
In a video statement, Maharashtra’s power minister Nitin Raut said maintenance work was on in Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company’s 400 kv Kalwa-Padgha centre when the technical fault happened in circuit number 2, which was taking the entire load at the time.
“A major part of Mumbai and Thane has been affected due to this, power will be restored in 30-45 minutes,” he said.
“In view of interruption in traction power at 10:05 hours due to grid failure of Tata Power company, services between Churchgate and Borivili are suspended. It shall be resumed as soon as traction power supply is restored,” Western Railway tweeted.
