Mumbai power outage: Maharashtra sends notice to Tata Power

A Tata Power spokesperson said the notice is a part of laid out procedures during such events and does not suggest any fault on its part

The Maharashtra government has sent a notice to Tata Power, one of the electricity suppliers of Mumbai, asking why the company’s Trombay power plant failed to comply with its directive to ramp-up production, which it said resulted in the metropolis coming to a grinding halt on the morning of February 27.

In a notice on March 2, the Maharashtra State Load Des­p­atch Centre (MSLDC), the apex body that ensures integrated operation of the power system in the state, asked the company to send detailed reasons for the power outage, failing which it threatened to take strict action against the company as