Over Half Of India’s Population Reels Under World’s Biggest-Ever Blackout

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North, East & Northeast Grids All Trip : It was a Terrible Tuesday that 684 million Indians are not going to forget in a hurry. In the world’s biggest blackout that affected one-tenth of the global population, 21 states and Union Territories went on the blink after threearterial power lines collapsed at 1pm. The northern, eastern and northeastern regions suffered the outage when their respective grids collapsed in quick succession with devastating effect. The blackout disrupted life, rail and air services as well as industrial production across sectors. Even as the country was reeling under the outage, power minister Sushilkumar Shinde was moved out to the home ministry, and Veerappa Moily given the additional charge of power — a move that hardly indicated seriousness on the government’s part in dealing with the crisis.