Shillong: Meghalaya’s minimum wage of Rs 525 is the highest in the northeast and second highest in the country after Karnataka’s Rs 581, chief minister Conrad K Sangma, who also holds the finance portfolio, stated in the assembly on Monday.“This reflects the intention of the government… to support in the most possible way the poorest of the poor,” he said in his reply on the debate to the governor’s address delivered in the assembly on the first day of the budget session on Feb 16.Meghalaya currently has the second-fastest growing economy in the country with a 9.66% real GSDP growth rate, behind Tamil Nadu’s 11.91%, he said and added that the govt is targeting Rs 85,000 crore GSDP, or about a $10 billion economy.The CM further informed the House that the state had generated 3.66 lakh jobs between 2019 and 2025.
