Indians become blacker: Power cut blacks out

[steffychun]

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Second blackout in India in two days leaves 670 million without powerReuters - 2 hrs 9 mins agoGrid failure hit India for a second day on Tuesday, cutting power to hundreds of millions of people in the populous northern and eastern states including the capital Delhi and major cities such as Kolkata. More »



670m without power. See how fucked up these shit skins are.

Well night time for them to fuck (if they can see where to screw)

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Here's also some more facts:

India blackout worsens; 670M in dark - CBS News

One-third of India's households do not even have electricity to power a light bulb, according to last year's census.


I will repeat it. ONE THIRD DON'T EVEN HAVE THE MEANS TO POWER A LIGHT BULB.




What is 1/3 of 1 billion? Around 300 million. Now look at the news 670m have lost power. So it's like the entire country doesn't have electricity.

Imagine that 1/3 of the population doesn't even have electricity.

 

[steffychun]

Here's also some more facts:

India blackout worsens; 670M in dark - CBS News

One-third of India's households do not even have electricity to power a light bulb, according to last year's census.


I will repeat it. ONE THIRD DON'T EVEN HAVE THE MEANS TO POWER A LIGHT BULB.




What is 1/3 of 1 billion? Around 300 million. Now look at the news 670m have lost power. So it's like the entire country doesn't have electricity.

Imagine that 1/3 of the population doesn't even have electricity.

How to cook curry?

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

How to cook curry?

you ever eaten raw curry?

 

[steffychun]

you ever eaten raw curry?

nope have you

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

nope have you

Hell no. ...

 

[chorut]

HOW CAN A WHOLE FREAKING SUB-CONTINENT CALLED INDIA BE TOTALLY BLACKED-OUT?

What a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT!

 

[steffychun]

time to become the Flintstones in India.

Don't take a plane trip there, lest you think you pilot can land in the dark.

 

[scroobal]

The country is an absolute disgrace. Corrupt, large segments of the population in poverty, infrastructure is limited but talk so much.

 

[steffychun]

The country is an absolute disgrace. Corrupt, large segments of the population in poverty, infrastructure is limited but talk so much.

BRCS India dropping out?

 

[Cruxx]

1/3 of the world's poor live in India, if memory serves me right.

 

[singveld]

The country is an absolute disgrace. Corrupt, large segments of the population in poverty, infrastructure is limited but talk so much.

but they have nuke, space program, nuclear submarine, nuclear ballistic missile, aircraft carrier - all unattainable by singapore

 

[Cruxx]

but they have nuke, space program, nuclear submarine, nuclear ballistic missile, aircraft carrier - all unattainable by singapore

Their billionaires are many times richer than the few in Singapore.

 

[steffychun]

but they have nuke, space program, nuclear submarine, nuclear ballistic missile, aircraft carrier - all unattainable by singapore

and still receive bilateral aid from the UK

 

[singveld]

Hundreds of millions without power in India

BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan: "More than half of India's population has ground to a halt"

India's energy crisis threatens growth

Monday's power disruption
Hundreds of millions of people have been left without electricity in northern and eastern India after a massive power breakdown.

More than half the country was hit by the power cuts after three grids collapsed - one for a second day.

Hundreds of trains have come to a standstill and hospitals are running on backup generators.

The country's power minister has blamed the crisis on states drawing too much power from the national grid.

The breakdowns in the northern, eastern, and north-eastern grids mean around 600m people have been affected in 20 of India's states.

"I have also instructed my officials to penalise the states which overdraw from the grid," he said.

Media reports in India have suggested that Uttar Pradesh is among the states that government officials have been blaming for the grid collapse.

But officials in the state denied this, saying there was "no reason to believe that any power operations in Uttar Pradesh triggered it".

Anil K Gupta, the chairman of the state's power company, called for "further investigation to ascertain the real cause".

Also on Tuesday it was announced that Mr Shinde had been promoted to the post of home minister, in a widely anticipated cabinet reshuffle.

'Complete mess'
By late on Tuesday, officials said the north-eastern grid was fully up and running. The northern grid was running at 75% capacity and the eastern at 40%.


Businesses had to use generators or candles to keep working once it got dark

Much of the country's railway network has started moving again, although a full service is not expected for many hours and there is a huge backlog to clear.

The failure on the northern grid on Monday also caused severe disruption and travel chaos across northern India.

One shopworker in Delhi, Anu Chopra, 21, said: "I can understand this happening once in a while but how can one allow such a thing to happen two days in a row?

"It just shows our infrastructure is in a complete mess. There is no transparency and no accountability whatsoever."

In eastern India, around 200 miners were trapped underground as lifts failed, but officials later said they had all been rescued.



This is also the season of no rain when humidity is high, the heat is sweltering and people get taken ill”



"Our message to people is that they are in safe hands, we have been in the job for years."

After Monday's cut, engineers managed to restore electricity to the northern grid by the evening, but at 13:05 (07:35 GMT) on Tuesday, it collapsed again.

The eastern grid failed around the same time, officials said, followed by the north-eastern grid.

Areas affected include Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan in the north, and West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand in the east.

Smriti Mehra, who works at the Bank Of India in Delhi, said it had to turn customers away.

"There is no internet, nothing is working. It is a total breakdown of everything in our office," she told AFP.



However, the city is not badly affected as it is served by a private electricity board, our correspondent adds.

Power cuts are common in Indian cities because of a fundamental shortage of power and an ageing grid - the chaos caused by such cuts has led to protests and unrest on the streets in the past.

But the collapse of an entire grid is rare - the last time the northern grid failed was in 2001.

India's demand for electricity has soared in recent years as its economy has grown but its power infrastructure has been unable to meet the growing needs.

Correspondents say unless there is a huge investment in the power sector, the country will see many more power failures

 

[singveld]

and still receive bilateral aid from the UK

china also still receive aids, there are many poor people living in china

 

[singveld]

india better off under british rule, independent only benefit the elite, the peasants see no gains.

 

[Television]

India and Nepal is suffering because of the Hypocrites and Ego of its politicians.

 

[steffychun]

china also still receive aids, there are many poor people living in china

And China gives out foreign aid

 

[god_zeus]

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