Train passengers to work-from-home employees, how power cut affected residents

From residents of apartment complexes who had to climb several flights of stairs in the absence of functional elevators to local train passengers who were seen walking on tracks, several residents of Mumbai faced inconvenience as parts of the city witnessed an hour-long power cut — second outage since 2020 – on Sunday.

Total power failure was reported in Sion, Wadala, Matunga, Parel, Dadar, Byculla, Churchgate and Fort areas. Few areas in western suburbs, including Bandra and some parts of Chembur, Kurla, also faced power cuts.

“I had gone out to buy groceries and when I came back, the lifts were down because of the power outage. After waiting for half an hour without any update on electricity resumption, I had to take the staircase to the 16th floor,” said Vidhi Bansal, a Worli resident.