MeECL employees threaten vigorous agitation over non-payment of salaries

A CORRRESPONDENT

SHILLONG: The general meeting of the Coordination Committee of Registered MeECL (Employee) Associations and Unions (CCORMAU) has announced a series of agitations to pressure the government for fulfillment of their various demands.

Accordingly, the MeECL employees will resort to a 'pen down' strike on December 15. The salaries of the MeECL employees have remained pending for the last two months.

On December 16 and 17, the executive committee members of the CCORMAU would stage a hunger strike. On December 21, the employees will suspend all maintenance works during office hours from 10 am to 4 pm. On January 12, the non-factory workers will go on mass casual leave and march to the State Secretariat to press for fulfilment of their demand. On January 18, the employees' organisation will launch a total non-cooperation movement involving all employees from the peon to the Chief Engineer. There will be a total shutdown of service and non-cooperation from January 22 in the event of non-disbursement of salaries even till that time, they said.

They demanded that the Meghalaya government to scrap the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (Smart Metering) Project in its current form. This demand was made during the general meeting of all employees held on December 11. The coordination committee said that the project must be handed over to the Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) which has the mandate to execute such project with zero investment from the utility under the National Smart Metering Program (NSMP) of the Government of India.

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