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(2) The Appropriate Commission may offset the adverse financial impact of the directions referred to in sub-section (1) on any generating company in such manner as it considers appropriate."

6. It is very clear from the plain reading of the statutory provision quoted above that the extraordinary power is given to the executive branch of the State (the Government) to meet the eventualities arising from extraordinary circumstances. The expression "natural calamity" used in explanatory clause is followed by the words or "such other circumstances" which, by the very context, would include conditions of flood, drought etc., such conditions having a direct bearing on the generation or availability of electricity as also demand for its supply. The key words in this enabling power are "public interest"