‘Meghalaya spent ₹240 cr.in tackling second wave’
The Hindu
State spent ₹400 cr. last year: CM
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Friday said his government has incurred an expenditure of ₹240 crore in improving the State’s health infrastructure and procuring necessary equipment during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, the government spent nearly ₹400 crore for tackling the first wave. “Meghalaya has spent ₹240 crore, mostly for improving infrastructure and procurement of equipment such as oxygen cylinders and PPEs, as it fought the second wave of the pandemic. This is apart from the ₹6.8 crore that the State had received from the Centre for creating prefabricated structure amid the crisis,” the Chief Minister said.
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