March 13, 2012. The shortfall in natural gas supply from the Centre to gas-fired power plants in Gujarat has resulted in an annual loss of Rs.1,156.83 crore until December 2011. Against a per-day gas requirement of 17.23 standard cubic metre (SCM) to run gas-based power plants in the state, 12.20 million cubic metres per day (MCMD) was received from the central pool in 2010-11. While, the state has received 9.86 MCMD until December 2011 in the FY 2011-12. The gas shortage has compelled the state government to buy spot natural gas from the market at higher prices, thereby, resulting in losses of Rs.1,156.83 crore. The state government gets natural gas on Administered Price Mechanism (APM) from GAIL, RLNG from GAIL and RIL's natural gas from the central pool, for its gas fired power plants in the state. The total losses due to shortfall in natural gas supply from Centre in last two years is pegged at Rs.2,320.36 crore.