Mumbai/IBNS: Mumbai, the financial capital of the country, faced power outage on Monday leading several services to a grinding halt allegedly due to TATA's electric supply failures, media reports said.
Several trains have been rescheduled.
The unprecedented power cut occurred little after 10 in the morning leaving people clueless.
BEST Electricity has put up a tweet, "The electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure. Inconvenience is regretted."
The electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure.
— BEST Electricity (@myBESTElectric) October 12, 2020
Inconvenience is regretted.
Central Railway tweeted, " CR Harbour line restored from 10.55 am. Engineers are in constant touch with Grid experts. We will update about mainline soon. Appeal Do not panic. Please don't walk on track."
Mumbai-Thane-Kalyan power failure is being attended to.
— Dr. Nitin Raut (@NitinRaut_INC) October 12, 2020
Kalwa- padgha transmissions line got tripped,
hence Thane- Palghar, New Mumbai power is off. Consequently, cascading the power failure to Mumbai-Thane & Mumbai suburban city.
It will be restored in approximately an hour.
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan tweeted, "Entire city in power outage .. somehow managing this message .. keep calm all shall be well .."
T 3688 - Entire city in power outage .. somehow managing this message .. keep calm all shall be well ..
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) October 12, 2020
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