Click to play videoNew Delhi: Independence day turned out to be a kite-mare for Delhiites. The city plunged into darkness for over five hours, not because of power shortage, but because metal-coated kite strings or manjha caused high-tension wires across the city to trip.
Fun, frolic flying tricolours – this is serious business. Who trips whom? To fly higher get the best strings. Coat it, lace it do whatever to get the best manjha and what happens when the metal-coated manjha gets stringed elsewhere like the power cables? The Capital plunged into darkness as kite strings tripped high-tension wires.
That's exactly the reason, why even though the demand for power fell by over 1000 mega watts and TRANSCO claims to have had surplus, many parts of Delhi were submerged in darkness for over five hours.
Over 600 power trips across Delhi in one day, and it was not just in residential areas. Even the Delhi metro service tripped – courtesy people flying kites next to metro stations.
Delhi TRANSCO, responsible for transmission of power says, they had alerted citizens about the kite menace.
Transco Director-Operations SR Sethi, said: “It is in the interest of children not to fly kinds near wires that's electrified. We had put out campaigns in the press, local channels for the same but still it happened.”
And it's not only in India, even our neighbour Pakistan suffered so much that the Pakistan Supreme Court banned metal-coated strings used for flying kites.
What happened in Delhi on Tuesday will make the authorities think about how to tackle the manjha menace.
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