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India & Pakistans Power Outages -In the Dark: 600 million people without Electricity after World's Biggest Blackout

The outage sparked travel chaos across the country with people evacuated from trains and hundreds of miners getting trapped in a mine

Daily Mirror UK 31 July 2012



Candlelight: Schoolgirls study during the power-cut in India -Reuters

Half of India was plunged into darkness today when the world’s biggest blackout left 620million people without electricity.
Stricken families were left without any power in the north of the country for a second day, with blackouts stretching up to the Himalayas.
A major power grid collapsed yesterday halting hundreds of trains and forcing hospitals and airports to rely on backup generators.
It left millions sweltering in the heat without any air conditioning.
Indian officials managed to restore power several hours later, but the region was hit with another blackout today.



Transport chaos: Commuters wait for a metro train, in New Delhi, after the northern grid crashed -AP


Gridlock: Roads were packed, people were trapped on trains and hospitals and airports had to use backup generators -AP



Nowhere to go: Commuters inside a Metro station -AP

It spread across more than half of the country when the Eastern and NorthEastern grids collapsed, the latter supplying five states with electricity.
There was chaos on the roads as traffic lights went out across Delhi, causing widespread traffic jams.
The city’s Metro rail system, which serves about 1.8million people a day, immediately shut down too.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said it would take at least 12 hours to restore power as office workers were sent home.
The state of West Bengal was without power and the cuts left hundreds of miners trapped in Burdwan.
Niladri Roy, of Eastern Coalfields Ltd, said: “Over 200 miners are stuck in several coal mines. They cannot come out until the power service is restored.”
The miners were told to move to a location where there was good ventilation in the mines and a rescue team was trying to supply them with food and water.
The crisis has underlined concerns about India’s ability to cope with the country’s growing demand for power.
Power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde blamed the latest collapse on states taking more than their allotted share of electricity.
He added: “Everyone overdraws from the grid. States that do so must be punished.”


More of the World's Worst Blackouts

July 31, 2012: Three power grids across half of India fail in what authorities call overdrawing of the system, leaving a record 620 million people without power.
Nov. 10, 2009: Storms near the Itaipu hydroelectric dam on the Paraguay-Brazil border are blamed for power cuts to as many as 60 million people in Brazil for two to three hours. The entire nation of Paraguay, population 7 million, is also briefly blacked out.
January-February 2008: Winter storms cause a nearly two-week blackout to about 4 million people around the central Chinese city of Chenzhou. Eleven technicians reportedly die trying to restore power.
November 2006: A German power company switches off a high voltage line over a river to let a cruise ship pass. It triggers outages for 10 million people in Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Sept. 28, 2003: A short in a power line in Switzerland leads to blackouts affecting 95% of Italy. Some 55 million people are without power for as long as 18 hours.
Aug. 14, 2003: The worst US blackout. Power line problems in the Midwest trigger a cascade of breakdowns that cut power to 50 million people in eight states and Canada, some for more than a day.
July 13, 1977: A lightning bolt knocks out electricity to about 8 million people in New York City. Power isn’t fully restored until 25 hours later after widespread looting.
Nov. 9, 1965: The Great Blackout left the power out for 25 million people in New York. It inspired the popular film, “Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?”




The power supply in Pakistani has also many serious problems, and has continued for months;

Pakistan power cut riots spread as politician's house stormed

Rioting and looting sparked by power cuts of up to 20 hours a day continue in several parts of Pakistan

Jon Boone in Islamabad
guardian.co.uk




Protesters burn tyres on Banazir Bhutto Road in Rawalphindi, Pakistan Photograph: Muhammad Javaid

The house of a Pakistani politician was stormed by thousands of rioters during an eruption of public fury at the government's inability to maintain electricity supplies during sweltering summer conditions.

The attack on the home of Riaz Fatiyana, a member of the ruling coalition, came on the third consecutive day of rioting, looting and violent protests in several parts of the country.

Fatiyana said the police did nothing to stop the assault on his property in Kamaliya, a town in Punjab, a province that has been particularly badly hit by power riots. His own guards opened fire into the crowd, however, killing two people.

Elsewhere in the country protesters torched police vans, attacked banks and looted shops.

Pakistan has suffered severe electricity shortages and power riots in recent years. Both problems, however, appear to be getting worse as the cash-strapped government sinks into ever greater debt, making it impossible to pay electricity providers.

With no alternative but to turn off supplies for up to 20 hours a day, ordinary people who cannot afford expensive diesel generators to power their electric fans are left to swelter.

Farooq Tariq, a social activist in Lahore, said huge numbers of people in the city have been forced into bathing in canals because they are unable to either cool themselves or pump washing water from ground wells.

"You see thousands of people using the dirty water of the canal because there is no other option," he said.

"We have never experienced this sort of massive load shedding before in Pakistan. It's unprecedented."


The state coffers are in no position to help as public funds have been consumed by the country's huge defence budget and interest payments on existing debt. Those two items alone make up about 65% of state spending.

Last month, Gilani suggested the power problem could be solved by simply printing more banknotes, despite already soaring inflation.

With public finances in such desperate straits that some diplomats are predicting a major economic crisis later in the year, it is doubtful the government will be able
to do little more than give some extra cash to private power providers to bring some slight relief from the current crisis
END

Just dreadful, can you ever imagine living for such a long time without power and water? The situation in Pakistan has not improved at all in the last few months.

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