Following collapse of Northern, Eastern & North Eastern grids on July 31, new Power Minister Moily called for this meeting

The Power Ministry today proposed to carry out independent audit of transmission grids within three months, a move that comes amid massive failures of grids last week that affected half of the country's population. The decision was taken at a meeting here chaired by Power Secretary P Uma Shankar and attended by members of various sectoral bodies and Power Grid besides officials from eight Northern states and Chandigarh, among others.