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India Blackout Leaves 300 Million Without Power
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Report; Posted on: 2012-07-30 19:50:00 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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What would YOU do? --Ed.
Grid failure left more than 300 million people without power in New
Delhi and much of northern India for hours on Monday in the worst
blackout for more than a decade, highlighting chronic infrastructure
woes holding back Asia's third-largest economy.
The lights in Delhi and seven states went out in the early
hours, leaving the capital's workers sweltering overnight and then
stranded at metro stations in the morning rush hour as trains were
cancelled.
Electricity supplies were restored to Delhi and much of Uttar Pradesh, a
state with more people than Brazil, by midday. But the states of
Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir were still without full power in
the early evening.
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News Source: smh.com.au
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