Savage Summer Hits Entire India With Record-Breaking Temperature; Power Cuts In These States As Power Demand Surges

Several states are suffering power cuts due to an unprecedented heatwave sweeping the nation.

Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Haryana have been affected by the power cuts and rising temperatures.

Making things worse is the deepening coal shortage crisis which has disrupted normal lives of citizens.

Delhi power minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday held an emergency meeting and called on the central government to ensure adequate coal supply.

Power Supply To Essential Institutions

Apart from homes, power supply to metro services and government hospitals in Delhi is likely to be affected because of disruption of power supply from Dadri-II and Unchahar power stations.

Hitting 44 Degrees

Delhi has been simmering at 40+ degrees for the past several days.

Unfortunately, the forecast is 44 degrees until Sunday and no rain before June. 

Heatwave Unrelenting, Orange Alert

The heatwave is set to intensify in the next five days,

The IMD has issued an orange alert for 5 states including Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.

Orange alert means that vigilance is required and is a level above yellow alert.

In Haryana, Gurgaon reacheed 45.6 degree celsius on Thursday for the first time in April.

Power Crisis

Rajasthan has scheduled power cuts for factories to cope with the surging demand amidst a power crisis

Power demand is further set to soar as the weather department warns of mercury surge.

Heat-Related Hospitalisation

Officials in Gujarat are bracing themselves for a potential influx of patients.

Hospitals have been advised to set up special wards for heat stroke and other heat-related diseases.

Over 6,000 people in India have succumbed to heat waves since 2010.

Incidents Of Fires

Prime Minister Modi issued a warning regarding rapidly rising temperatures much earlier than usual.

This has led to more and more incidents of fires in various places – jungles, important buildings and hospitals – in the past days.

Water, Coal Shortage

Farmers may suffer from water shortage.

Fears over outages linked to coal shortage began last October with the coal crisis.