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August 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Senior power ministry officials, however privately conceded that similar
outages could well recur as abysmally inadequate fail safe measures were in
place. They said power transmission lines were obsolete and distribution
systems archaic and riddled with corruption.
Adding to the problem is that India is coal-reliant for more than half its
power generation; but coal supplies are dwindling as contracts to mine it
were swathed in a massive corruption scandal.
A recent government survey revealed that the majority of coal-fuelled plants
had less than seven days of stock even as the demand for power soared in
searing hot temperatures that were aggravated by poor monsoon showers.
Hydroelectric power too was in short supply as most Indian reservoirs were
more than half empty due to inadequate rain.
Meanwhile, power supplies across India limped back to normal on Tuesday
evening in almost all the 19 of 29 affected provinces, including the federal
capital New Delhi except for parts of eastern Bengal state and its capital
Calcutta that had to wait till early morning for electricity to return.
The media, meanwhile, excoriated prime minister Manmohan Singh’s government
over the blackout with newspaper headlines like “Superpower India, RIP”
and “Powerless and Clueless”. Most mocked India’s status as a
nuclear weapon power and its aspirations of becoming an economic powerhouse.
The Times of India newspaper correctly captured the country’s mood when it
declared on its front page that moving power minister Shinde was “like
changing the captain of the Titanic when it’s reeling after hitting a giant
iceberg”.
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