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For the second time in two days, half of India plunged into darkness after the Northern and the Eastern Grids collapsed, affecting an estimated 37 crore people.
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The collapse of the grids came a day after the northern grid failed and left eight states without power for most part of the day.
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The power grids failure affected all seven states in the North and the states of Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand in the North East and East.
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Six Railway zones including Northern Railway, Eastern Railway and North Central Railway affected.
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Almost 500 trains of the Indian Railways remained stuck.
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A picture of an empty railway track. Over 150 trains got cancelled due to to the outage.
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Streets were packed with heavy traffic following the power outage and the rains in Delhi.
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Almost 4000 personnel were pressed into duty to handle the traffic situation.
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Many traffic lights across Delhi stopped working which added to the chaos in the capital city.
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The outage severely affected the Delhi Metro services, which had come to a complete halt for almost 2 hours.
Commuters talk on mobile phone inside a Metro station after Delhi Metro rail services were disrupted.
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A handwritten notice about power failure is pasted outside a Metro station after Delhi Metro rail services were disrupted.
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Commuters wait for buses outside a Metro station after Delhi Metro rail services were disrupted following power outage.
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People travel in an overcrowded bus in New Delhi as Metro services were closed following northern grid failure.
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Passengers outside Central Secretariat Metro Station in New Delhi. Metro is the most used public transport in the national capital.
