There are reports of outages in almost every part of the sprawling metropolis. Areas such as Central Mumbai, Thane, Jogeshwari, Wadala, Chembur, Borivali, Dadar, Kandivali, Mira Road, Bhandup faced outages, according to a Mumbai Mirror report online.
Most traders in the securities markets said that trading activity has not been significantly affected, but if the disruption continues, it could affect trading volumes. Today, markets work with support.
Several operators, including state-owned BEST, Adani Electricity and Tata Power supply power to the city. According to a spokesman for the city authority, the cut is due to a network failure.
Electricity supply was interrupted due to the failure of TATA’s incoming power supply, the ANI news agency said, citing Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport.
According to preliminary reports, it will likely take 45 minutes to 1 hour to restore power.
Disaster control and CE M&E will keep the private MOBILE DG SET vehicles on hand in the next hour in case the power failure continues beyond two hours, ET Bureau reported.
Hospitals have been instructed to contact their respective SWM TRANSPORTATION GARAGE officers to obtain sufficient diesel supply for at least eight hours so that there are no power outages, especially in ICUs.
Mumbaikars took to Twitter to complain about the blackout.
Local trains also stopped. Central Railway tweeted: “Mumbai suburban trains in CR were delayed due to a network failure. We will update as soon as possible. Please bear with us.”
Suburban local train services, which operate only for essential workers today, were affected from 1005 hours, PTI said, citing sources. All the lines, central, eastern and western, were interrupted.
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