Grid failure: States told to put in place ‘islanding’ system
The Centre wants States to implement an ‘islanding’ mechanism to prevent the kind of grid failures that left much of North, East and North-East India without power for two days last week. But it failed to come up with a deterrent mechanism to penalise errant States. Power Minister Veerappa Moily indicated that ‘confidence and trust’ within the States would prevent repeat of such accidents.