Bengaluru: Internet outage hits work at Vidhana Soudha

Internet outage for several hours affected administrative work at Vidhana Soudha, Vikasa Soudha and MS Building – the secretariat – on Wednesday.

While authorities said that the outage was due to software upgrade work, officials and employees of various departments housed in corridors of power maintained that there was no prior intimation.

Movement of files was hit because of the internet outage since morning. Much of the file movement happs on e-Office, a paperless software system.

Due to the outage, some officials were seen struggling to clear important and priority files by connecting to the internet from their cellphones.