A day after it conducted a hearing regarding the unprecedented power outage in Mumbai on October 12, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) ordered an independent high-level committee to probe the root cause of the outage and recommend steps to avoid a recurrence.

MERC members Mukesh Khullar and I M Bohri passed the order and notified that Sudhir Kumar Goel, former additional chief secretary of the state will head the expert committee. V Ramakrishna, ex-member (Power Systems), Central Electricity Authority and Dr Faruk A S Kazi, head of the department of Electrical Engineering VJTI, Mumbai, will be the members of the committee.