After watching a video involving “tightrope daredevils,” Anand Mahindra, president of the Mahindra Group, said Saturday that he would think about it before complaining about power services.
A video of state worker MSETCL clinging to cables at high altitudes to resolve a fault on the line near Khandala led the industrialist to swear on Twitter that he will be more circumspect as he complains 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.
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. The height at which he is working is highly noticeable with the land mass far below and behind him, and the presence of a lone worker at such great heights illustrates the risks taken. 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 “physically broken” in the days leading up to the cut. Waghmare had rated 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 received power for Kalwa was shut down or tripped, causing the network to collapse. Currently, the state MSETCL and the private sector Tata Power are in a blame game for what caused the large power outage that took more than 14 hours to resolve. the island system could not be activated because Tata’s generation started too late, while Tata blames a cascading trip of circuits for the failure.
While Mumbai was paralyzed for hours on Monday due to the massive blackout, Mahindra tweeted a video of pylons ‘dancing’, saying: “Shots from Mumbai power line. The humor lines on the internet are intact and moving at the speed of the light … “
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