Mumbai was brought to its knees on Monday morning by an unprecedented power blackout that disrupted suburban railways and emergency services and forced offline thousands of remote-working bankers, stock traders and technology professionals.
Just as Mumbai was beginning its new work week, the city and its suburbs suffered a massive outage at 10am that lasted at least two hours in some places, and continued up to eight hours in others.
According to a statement from the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Co. (MSETCL), which operates four 400kV (kilo-volt) transmission lines fetching power to Mumbai, it could not complete ongoing maintenance work on two of these four lines to fix a broken conductor and an obstructed insulator.
