Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Roughly half of India’s 1.2 billion population or 670 million were without electricity in the second day of massive outages.
Power grids supplying electricity to India collapsed again on Tuesday, trapping coal miners, stranding train travelers and plunging hospitals into darkness in the second major blackout in as many days.
Stretching from Assam, near China to the Himalayas and the northwestern deserts of Rajasthan, the outage was the worst to hit India in more than a decade. The hapless Indian government failed to supply enough power capacity to meet soaring demand.
More than a dozen Indian states were in the dark.