Anand Mahindra was responding to a video shared by the Maharashtra Information Center (file)
Mumbai:
A video of the MSETCL state worker clinging to cables at high altitude to resolve a fault on the line near Khandala prompted industrialist Anand Mahindra to promise to be more cautious as he complained about electricity services in the future.
Responding to a video shared by the Maharashtra Information Center, New Delhi Deputy Director Dayanand Kamble showed a worker solving a fault in the high-voltage transmission line that carries power to the financial capital.
“I will think and pray for the safety of these daredevils before I complain again,” Mahindra wrote while retweeting the video on Saturday.
I will think and pray for the safety of these daredevils before I complain again … https: //t.co/XcoxO4AD7j
– anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) October 17, 2020
Filmed on a clear day in the ghat section that separates the Western Ghats from the Konkan coast in the Khandala region, the 55-second video shows a worker sliding down a cable, possibly to reach the exact location of a fault.
Kamble said this is the fourth day of troubleshooting operation undertaken by MSETCL state employees, adding that the failure on this line was one of the main reasons for the power outage facing the financial capital on Monday.
Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company (MSETCL) chairman and managing director Dinesh Waghmare had said earlier this week that a cable carrying power from Talegaon near Pune on the Deccan Plateau to the Kalwa substation on the outskirts of Mumbai had been “physically broken” in the days leading up to the blackout.
Mr. Waghmare described the region in which the fault occurred as mountainous and hostile from an approximation perspective, so the problem could not be immediately resolved and the line was closed. Simultaneously, three other lines supplying power to Kalwa were shut down or tripped, causing the grid to collapse.
Currently, the state MSETCL and the private sector Tata Power are in a blame game for what caused the large blackout that took more than 14 hours to resolve. MSETCL says that the island system could not be activated because the Tata generation started too late, while Tata blames a cascading trip of circuits for the failure.
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