Power tripped at the Chandauti grid at about 6 pm on Sunday, and all attempts to remove the snag that caused the power tripping failed during the night, forcing lakhs of Gayaites to sweat it out in total darkness.
Earlier on June 30, the city remained plunged in darkness for more than eight hours at a stretch owing to the leisurely replacement of a switch at the Chandauti Power Grid.
Early, on Monday morning, a BSEB executive engineer attributed the power cut to a major fault in the high transmission wire near Katari Hills.
The repair of the Katari Hills faultline failed to restore power supply in the affected areas.
The Power Board officials found another snag near Imalia Chak. But the Imalia Chak snag, too, was not the last one.
Panic buttons were pressed around noon on Monday as board engineers were at a loss to identify the real problem.
Then began the time tested trial and error method to identify the snag inside the Chandauti Grid. After a series of errors, power could somehow be restored at about 4 in the afternoon, thereby ending the 22-hour long ordeal for the Gayaites.