Shillong, March 20: With the state and the country as a whole facing acute power supply, a cut motion has been moved by NPP legislator James Sangma suggesting that the state of Meghalaya should come up with an alternative mechanism to tackle this energy deficiency. On replying to the cut motion the chief minister said that government will soon come up with the ‘Meghalaya Renewable Energy Policy’ to tackle of power deficit in the state.
The NPP legislator James Sangma while participating at the ongoing budget session of the assembly said that the state should focus of having an alternative to curb deficient power supply by using biomass as well as solar energy. Replying to a cut motion moved by NPP legislator James Sangma, the chief minister said, “It is time that we redesign our approach. There is need on urgent basis to have a policy on renewable energy which government is still working out and would soon complete the draft policy.” The chief minister also informed the house that the government will encourage investment by interested investors in solar energy, bio-mass gasification and an attractive and balance policy is needed to provide necessary incentives to investors. Besides, the chief Minister also said that with a policy in place, the government expects several solar plants to come up in the state. The chief minister further informed that the government would soon take steps to identify areas in the state which has immense potentials in biomass for setting up off-grid plants to supplement the shortage of power supply in the state.(SP News)
