SHILLONG: The CSWO is suspecting manipulations in Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited (MeECL) with regard to the recruitment of jugali.
In a statement issued to the media on Wednesday, CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing said that MeECL brought out an advertisement in 2011 and the physical test and personal interview were conducted in the year 2012 in Tura and Shillong. The result was brought out in 2016. According to an RTI filed, those who passed were 772 candidates. RTI was further sought by a candidate to the Jugali post seeking the score sheet of the physical test (Race 800 Mts) and personal interview along with the copy of recommendation of the selection committee.
“The MeECL PIO (public information officer) provided only the combined scoresheets which contained the marks of all the participants. The MeECL PIO also claimed that there were no other documents for this interview except the combined score sheets,” the CSWO statement said.
“What is strange is where are the score sheets for the physical tests and the personal interview which were conducted at different centres and on different dates. There were eight groups of selection committees for the personal interview so how can they all be using only one combined score sheets,” it added. CSWO pointed out that the combined score sheet contains the names in order of merit and if this was used for the interview, the names of candidates in Shillong were entered first while the interview was conducted first in Tura.
“According to what is revealed in this combined scoresheet, there are about 800 candidates who did not receive any marks for the physical tests but received marks only for the personal test. This indicates they had passed the physical tests but for reasons best known to the authorities their marks were erased,” Kharshiing said in the statement.
“According to the notification, the results were declared after being approved by the Board of Directors according to the recommendation of the selection Committee but strangely again there are no documents made available to indicate the recommendations of the selection committee. How then can the Board of Directors approve and agree without the recommendation of the selection Committee,” she questioned.
She alleged that government records have been tampered with. An FIR in this regard has been filed by a candidate at the Shillong Sadar police station on July 21.
“It is sadly noted that the jugalis who had also applied for the posts (many according to the combined scoresheets were unsuccessful) were appointed on contract basis and are meagerly paid Rs212 per day and get no leave. This is sheer exploitation of labour while MeECL being a government-owned company requires many more jugalis to provide regular services,” the statement said.
Also, CSWO pointed out that MeECL is not contributing to the Employees’ Provident Fund for these contractual jugalis when they should as the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, applies to any other establishment employing 20 or more persons and MeECL is also not paying them equal pay as paying the regular jugalis, as directed by the Supreme Court.
