Interference power outages worsened India

India :

Approximately 600 million people in India affected by power outages following the supply disruption that hit the country's northern region on the second day.

Officials said the plant in the north and east of the country died. All the rail network in Delhi and stopped trying to evacuate employees of the passengers.

Power outages that occurred on Monday (31/07) that causes major disruption of transport across northern India.

It is unclear why the power off but the electrical affairs minister said that some states use electricity above the allowed limit.

Sushil Kumar Shinde said the possibility of electricity can be restored in about 90 minutes.

Following a disturbance that occurred on Monday, the technicians restore the flow of electricity at night, but by the middle of Tuesday at 01:05 pm local time, power off again.

Frequent power failure

Plant in the east also die at the same time, according to officials.

"The plant in the north and east of the dead. Let us solve this problem," AFP news agency quoted VK Agrawal, manager of the plant in the north.

These two plants supply electricity to half of the population of India, amounting to 1.2 billion people.

Power outages occurred in many places including the capital Delhi, and the state of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan in the north and West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in the east.

Rail officials said more than 350 trains to a halt while hospitals and other public facilities to use generator.

Power outages are common in Indian cities due to electricity shortages and the aging of plants.

Electricity demand in India increased in recent years because of economic development but the infrastructure does not support.

Correspondents say the absence of a major investment in electric field, India would often crash.

Source :bbc indonesia