Southern states in the grip of power crisis (India)

With monsoon paying truant, the power situation is worsening everyday in almost all southern states, except perhaps in Tamil Nadu. After Maharashtra, it is now the turn of Karnataka and Kerala where the state electricity regulatory commissions have suggested load shedding.

The Karnataka government has announced a 20 per cent reduction in power supply, that may leave India’s software capital Bangalore without electricity for almost four hours. And, if the rains do not improve, the power cut may extend to six hours or more, official sources said.

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