SHILLONG: In a positive development, the Mawmluh Cherra Cements Limited (MCCL) within five month of its commercial production has captured a good market in the state.
MCCL Managing Director, Sanjay Goyal on Thursday said that the company has now captured around 8000-9000 metric tonnes of the total cement market’s capacity in the state.
“The price of the each cement bag is around Rs 330 to Rs 340 at the moment since the MCCL intends to capture the market once again besides providing benefit to the people,” Goyal said.
He, however, said that the rates are often fluctuated and added that the new modernised plant at the moment is producing around 400 metric tonnes of cement every day and the production would further increase in future. The new modernised plant of MCCL has the capacity to produce 18000 metric tonnes of cements in a month.
“The power availability is a challenge in the plant and sometimes shortage of power leads to slight stoppages of the plant.” Goyal admitted.
Reacting to a query about the pending salary of the employees, he said that around 300 employees of the company had a pending salary of 12 months and the company has paid the salary of 3 months in bits and pieces and the remaining salary would be also cleared soon.
Going by the situation, it seems that the MCCL which was once bleeding earlier is now slowly but steadily picking up its pace as far as revenue generation is concerned and the management is optimistic that the company would be surely a profit making body again in near future.
The MCCL was facing problems due to its old and worn out plants and the Government took the measure of modernising the plant which finally started its commercial production from September last.
Set up in the early 1960s, MCCL is the oldest public sector undertaking in Meghalaya and is also the only state-owned cement plant. The cement produced from the old plant had a large market in the state due to its good quality.
