Tata Power, MahaTransco trade charges over Mumbai power disruption

State govt orders high probe to fix responsibility, as outage brings trains and other critical services to a grinding halt

Tata Power and the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company (MahaTransco), a state government-owned electricity distributor, have blamed each other for the power outage in Mumbai on Sunday due to which trains and other critical services came to a grinding halt in the city.

While Tata Power has blamed the massive voltage fluctuations in MahaTransco's transmission lines for the incident, government officials said Tata Power plant was operating at half of its capacity and failed to ramp up electricity generation on Sunday despite instructions from the State Load Dispatch Center -- the apex body which ensures integrated operation of the power