The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) on Thursday said a three-member committee will conduct an inquiry into last week’s power outage which had plunged parts of the financial capital into darkness for up to 14 hours.
The high-level committee has been given three months’ time to submit its report, MERC said in an order, adding the same can be extended if so sought by the panel.
The committee will be chaired by retired bureaucrat and former additional chief secretary of Maharashtra S K Goel, and includes C Ramakrishna (formerly with the Central Electricity Authority) and Faruk A S Kazi, head of the department of electrical engineering at city-based VJTI.
