Shillong, June 6: Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Tuesday said the government will have to spend Rs 300 crore to purchase power if the present situation continues in the next 100 days.
Conrad told reporters that on an average in the last two years, the government has been spending around Rs 600 crore of the state’s revenue to pay for different expenditures including purchase of power.
“We are purchasing close to Rs 3 crore of power every day even now considering the kind of scenario we are facing today. Hence, if the situation continues in the next 100 days, we will be spending an additional Rs 300 crore just to buy power, just to maintain this level of load loadshedding that we have,” he said.
On the decrease in the water level of the Umiam Lake, Conrad said that it is almost at a point of shutting down as the state has not been receiving the required rainfall in the past few months.
