Staff Reporter

Shillong, April 6: Minister in charge of Power Abu Taher Mondal stated that there is no policy to regularize the services of the contractual employees in Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited (MeECL).

“(There is) no policy as such to regularize. Whenever required as such, MeECL goes for advertisement and appointments are given on that basis,” Mondal told the reporters.

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He added that “the one who works under different categories, it is not that they will be taken like that they will have to go for proper employment policy”.

It may be mentioned here that the MeECL Progressive Workers’ Union (MePWU) has been calling for a series of agitations demanding the MeECL management to frame a policy for the regularization of long-standing casual workers.