India / Electricity in Mumbai will be restored in an hour or 45 mins

After several areas in Mumbai faced power outage, Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut said, "Our staff is working on it and power will be restored in an hour or 45 minutes." "Due to a technical glitch in Circuit 2 of the Kalva-Padghe powerhouse, the regions between Thane and Mumbai are facing a power cut," he further said.

Mumbai: Large parts of Mumbai and its suburbs faced a power failure, due to which several trains were held up. The outage, according to the city's electricity supply board, was because of the failure of a power grid. Traffic signals at some areas too stopped working. The power supply has been restored in most parts of the city.

Mumbai airport and the stock exchange were functional.

The central and western line train services have been restored. Western Railway said the breakdown was due to a grid failure at Tata Power. Commuters were seen walking on rail tracks.

Such a large-scale power failure was unprecedented for the country's financial capital. The electricity supply, interrupted at 10:05 am, was expected to be restored in 45 minutes to an hour, the authorities said.

"The electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure. Inconvenience is regretted," Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) tweeted.

"Due to a technical glitch in Circuit 2 of the Kalva-Padghe powerhouse, the regions between Thane and Mumbai are facing a power cut. Our staff is working on it and power will be restored in an hour or 45 minutes," Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut said. "It will be restored in approximately an hour," M Raut tweeted at 11:35 am.

The city's civic body has asked hospitals to ensure there is enough supply of diesel for at least eight hours to avoid power failures, especially in the ICUs.

Central Railway trains were restored at 10:55 am.

Adani Electricity, a major power supplier in the city, said is it "currently supplying to critical services in Mumbai". Multiple operators, including the state-run BEST, Adani Electricity and Tata Power supply power to the city.

Mumbai's civic body shared helpline numbers for those affected.

Within minutes of the outage, people took to social media. Hashtags such as #powercut, #Mumbai and #poweroutage started trending on Twitter. Superstar Amitabh Bachchan was among those who took to social media.

"Entire city in power outage... somehow managing this message... keep calm all shall be well," Mr Bachchan tweeted. "Dongles working. Vodafone is working for me."

"Has everyone's electricity gone?! What is going on? #Mumbai," a user tweeted.

Another user wrote: "Wow the whole of Mumbai has an electricity cut and suddenly no one can take it anymore."