Shillong, June 27: Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Monday said the government cannot avoid load shedding due to less power generation.
Earlier, pending bills to various power companies were the reasons for the loadshedding but the bills were cleared with the atmanirbhar fund of Rs 1345 crore.
After the cabinet meeting, the chief minister said the government reviewed the power scenario in the state.
According to the chief minister, the state is imposing load shedding due to acute shortage of power after five units, of which three are national companies including OTPC and Kopili and two are from state owned Leshka and Umtru power projects, were not functioning properly.
The state is running short of about 110 megawatts (MW) due to non-functioning of the three units of the national companies, he said.
“We have roughly about 42 MW from Leshka and about 21 MW from Umtru which are being disturbed because of periodic maintenance and some of the units are not functioning which of course repairing is on and we are trying to get things done quickly,” he added.
Sangma said the government is working towards rescheduling and trying to find out how to minimise the inconveniences caused to the people as there are some areas where load shedding will be for 3 hours.
“In about a week to two weeks’ time we expect some units to start working again and if that happens we expect a large relief to take place but I don’t want to jump the gun but we expect that to happen soon,” he said.
The chief minister wanted the people to bear with the government.
