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A massive
power breakdown has hit India for a second day running, leaving more than half
the country without power.
Officials
said the northern and eastern grids had both collapsed. All Delhi metro
services have been halted and staff are trying to evacuate trains.
A massive
power failure caused severe disruption and travel chaos across northern India
on Monday.
It was
unclear why the grid collapsed but reports said some states may have been using
more power than authorised.
Power
officials managed to restore the northern grid by Monday evening, but at
01:05pm (0735 GMT) on Tuesday, the grid collapsed again.
The eastern
grid failed around the same time, officials said.
"Both
the northern and eastern grids have collapsed. Please allow us to address the problem,"
AFP news agency quoted VK Agrawal, the general manager of the northern grid, as
saying.
The two
grids together serve more than half of India's 1.2bn people.
The
breakdown has hit a large swathe of the country including Delhi, Punjab,
Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan states in the north and
West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand in the east.
An official
in Orissa said the blackout in the eastern grid had been triggered by a fault
and could take several hours to resolve.
Correspondents
say India faces a chronic power deficit and unless there is a huge investment
in the power sector, the country will see many more power failures.
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