Shillong, Nov 06: The casual workers of Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited from different Districts of Meghalaya, have written to the MeECL the department have appointed undersigned as Casualemployee in the Office of the Meghalaya Power Distribution Corporation Limited, for the period of 30 days and 89 days respectively.
The service of the undersigned as Casual employee had been continuously extending from time to time by your esteemed Department or by respective Chief Engineer Distribution of respective Zone, District.
It may be mentioned that had been rendering the service continuously without any break and had been performing the duties without any complaint or adverse remarks from the competent authorities and discharging the duties and responsibilities with the full satisfaction to the higher authorities.
That in absence of any specific service rule or in absence of any policy frame for regularization of the service of the casual employee or in absence of any service rule, the Meghalaya Fundamental Rules and Subsidiary Rules and other Meghalaya Service Rules will govern and being applicable in your esteemed Department of Meghalaya Power Distribution Corporation Limited in respect of the regularization of the service of the casual employee and other related service matter.
The Department have engaged number of Casual employee including the undersigned for the period of 30 days and 89 days respectively in different Districts, Different Zones of Meghalaya.
It is learnt that since from 1993 there are number of Casual or contractual employees who have served for the period of not less than 10 years and their service had been regularized by your esteemed Department in different Districts as per the Meghalaya Fundamental Rules and Subsidiary Rules and other Service Rules frame therein and in the same manner we also request your esteemed Department to allow them to continue in our existing service and duly regularized as and when our service are being qualified.
The Casual and Contractual employee of your esteemed Department have highly appreciate your endeavor to frame the policy to regularized the casual employee or contractual employee. The undersigned also appreciate Department’s active and continuous efforts to regularized the service of the casual employee, temporary employee or contractual employee working under your Department in different Districts.
It may be mentioned that your esteemed Department on 12.03.2025 have held the meeting between the Chairman- cum-Managing Director, MeECL and the representatives of the Co-ordination Committee of Registered MeECL Associations and Unions (CCORMAU) in the conference room at 6:00 Pm, wherein during the meeting the resolution had been adopted to regularized the service of the contractual worker or casual worker on phase wise basis.
In the meeting the Chairman-cum- Managing Director informed that the Management is actively working out on a Policy to regularized the contractual/casual employee. That during the meeting members from both sides also express their pleasure to learn that the Management is working out on the regularization Policy and further assures that the Management will complete the process within the period of three months.
The Casual employee of different Districts of Meghalaya is shocked and surprise that despite of the resolution being adopted to regularized the casual employee, contractual employee and despite of the assurance and the promise made by the Chairman-cum Managing Director MeECL during the meeting held on 12.03.2025.
The Managing committee of the Board of Director have held the meeting on 25.09.2026 and passed the vide resolution wherein it was decided that all casual employee engaged in MeECL and its Subsidiaries for a period of 30 days and 89 days shall henceforth be deployed through Manpower Agency.
In this regards we the undersigned the casual employee of your esteemed Department placed our strong objections and pray to reconsider and recall the resolution adopted on 25.09.2026 and also to revoke the Office order dated.23.10.2026.
That the resolution adopted on 25.09.2026 deciding all the casual employee engaged in MeECL and its subsidiaries for period of 30 days and 89 days be deployed through Manpower Agency will seriously affect the service of the casual employee, including the undersigned as the casual employee who had been serving continuously for the minimum 3-5 years will be deprived of regularization of their service after the continuous service of not less than 10 years as these casual employee.
They will no longer be working or rendering their service under the esteemed Office of Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited or Meghalaya Power Distribution Corporation Limited as they will be treat and considered as employee of private corporation or working under private agency.
That the Resolution adopted on 25.09.2026 mentioned in the Office order dated. 23.10.2026 will barred and deprived the casual employee or contractual employee from claiming the regularization of their service after working for the minimum period of 10 years.
Mmore importantly the casual employee will not have any Job Security as at any point of time they will be thrown out of their Job, Service as they are no longer under the Department of Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited and the Meghalaya Fundamental Service Rules and Subsidiary Rules or any other service rule will not be applicable to these casual employee.
That as mentioned in the above the casual employee while appreciating the initiatives and the endeavor made by your esteemed Department to regularized the service of the casual employee who had been working for some years and who are eligible and qualified to be regularized of their service.
The undersigned who had been rendering their service as a casual workers also humbly request to give the same opportunities to the undersigned to serve as a casual employee for some years and accordingly regularized the service of the undersigned same with the line of those casual employee whose service is going to be regularized by your esteemed Department by the end of November, 2026.
That during the meeting held on 12.03.2025, the Chairman-Cum- Managing Director MeECL also have informed that there will be no fresh recruitment of contractual or casual workers, however endeavor being made by your esteemed Department to regularized the casual workeror existing contractual employee or the casual or contractual employee who have already been engaged or appointed as casual employee or contractual employee.
The undersigned have no objections whatsoever with regards to stopping fresh recruitment or appointment of new casual employee or contractual employee, but humbly requesting to further extend the casual employee inclosing the undersigned who have been engaged for the period of 30 days or 89 days and allow to continue in their service as a casual employee and to regularized their service when they are being eligible and qualified to be regularized of their service.
The Department is being paid of minimum daily wages as per Govt. Notification according to their categories such as skilled and unskilled, Labour, therefore monthly salary of the casual employee is sum of Rs,18,000- to 20,000/- , however in the private agency the salary for daily wages is less than the Govt. notification.
The undersigned the employee of casual workers of your esteemed Department Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited to re-consider the resolution adopted on 25.09.2026 and revoke or recall he Office order dated.23.10.2026 on humanitarian grounds considering the length of their service and also in view of the above mentioned grounds stated herein above within the period of 15 days from the date of the received of the instant Memorandum.
