SHILLONG: The Mawmluh Cherra Cemented Limited (MCCL) Employees Union has lamented that the modernised plant is producing mere 200-250 metric tons of cements every day even though its installed capacity is 600 MT per day
Addressing a Press conference here on Wednesday, President of the Union, S Diengdoh said that the new modernised plant did produced 600 mt earlier but now its production had gone down even as he added that the production was much lesser than the private cement plants in Meghalaya were producing upto 2000 mt of cements every day
He said that the problem of the employees would be solved greatly if the plant generates cements to its full capacity even as he added that the Union would welcome any expert who could increase the production of the plant to its fully potential.
Meanwhile, the Union is also irked with the Management of the MCCL and the government over its long pending salary with effect from August, 2015 to March, 2016 besides their overtime dues from November 2013 to December 2016 and from May 2017 till date.
The employees also want the government to take care of the employees with other benefits like medical and maternal facilities even as he added that the employees wanted to see the improvement in the overall functioning of the company.
According to Union, they have taken up the matter with the government on several occasions but there has been no response from the Government.
Meanwhile, the Union has also issued a 14 -day notice to the management and the government for redressal of their grievances failing which they would resort to lawful agitations.
It was last year when the new modernised plant started functioning and as per media reports, the cost of modernisation of MCCL was a whopping Rs 145 crore including bank loans. The bank interest alone went up to Rs 35 crore.
The MCCL (formerly Assam Cements Limited) which started functioning in 1966 had many break downs.
After Meghalaya was formed in 1972, it was under the sole control of the state government.
Till 2007, the MCCL was making profit, but since 2008 following a major break down, the state government had planned modernisation of the plant which took almost eight years