KSU against extension of service for retired officials

JOWAI: The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) central body has demanded immediate cancellation of the order extending the services of three officers of the Meghalaya Non Conventional & Rural Energy Development Agency. In a statement issued here, the union informed that members of the KSU Employment and Generation Cell met the agency’s chairman Rupert Momin on May 8 and placed a demand not to extend the service of the three officers who are duly to retire from service.
The three officers includes a supervisor appointed on May, 1989 and later promoted to Supervising Officer in June 1995 and again as Project Officer (Solar) in March 1999 till date.
The KSU informed that the said officer wanted to continue his service till he was promoted to the post of Assistant Director and was duly regularised.
Another officer was appointed in December 1987 to the post of Lady Programme Officer and was promoted to the post of Senior Programme Officer on March 1999 and Assistant Director in August 2017.
A third officer who was appointed as Project Officer (Bio Energy) in June 1988 and recently her service was extended after creation of a new post of Assistant Director in August 2017, the KSU alleged. “Such practices have affected the unemployed educated youth in the state”, the KSU stated.