It was nothing but political "goondaism" that caused possibly the world largest power outage possibly earning India an infamous entry into the Guinness book of records.
Local politicians threaten the grid people to allow them to overdraw which causes the grid to trip. the last time this happened was in 2001 when it lasted between 11 to 48hrs. this time it was 9 hrs and 6 hrs. but it never need happen if:
1. power is fully priced
2. power thieves are jailed &/or their properties auctioned off
3. overdrawals are automatically cut off by a computer - thus eliminating any human involvement.
nothing more nothing less.
media reports "showed" off that it was to India that the US turned to when their grid collapsed in 2003 & 2008. one of the readers comments kinda nails it - " possibly because India is more experienced with power cuts?"
jokes apart the setting up of the Power Grid as a separate entity back in 1996 (in the teeth of union and political opposition - conceived and ordered by narsimha rao) was the cornerstone on which the discipline in the power management of the nation has been steadily being built up.
But it is miles to go in the filed of babudom not bowing to political pressure that is the call of the hour and maybe it is this moral corruption that the old man is actually fasting against in Jantar mantar. we hope that his health holds up in this latest struggle to awaken the spirit of the nation.
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