SHILLONG, Dec 26: Persisting in their demand for immediate regularisation, the aggrieved parents of the nine employees of Meghalaya Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) have turn down the letter from the department, which has assured them of regularisation by March 2021.
The department had, on December 24, issued a letter to the nine employees, stating that the probation period has expired on December 14, 2020, and a tentative date will be announced on March 2021. “What does the department want to say by this? We want to know,” an aggrieved parent said.
Recalling the meeting with the vice chairman and the general manager of the department on the first week of December, the parent said, “As per the discussion held with them, it was clearly mentioned that a tentative date will be given on December 14 and regularisation will be on second week of January 2021”.
“We fail to understand why they have issued a letter again stating that a tentative date will be given on March 2021,” the parent added.
Questioning the intentions of the MTDC, the parent said, “Are they not playing with the candidates? They have played for the past three years and still continuing”.
Three years and counting after the completion of the probation period, the fate of nine employees of Meghalaya Tourism is left in limbo with no clear word from the department about regularising them.
According to the parents of the employees, who did not wish to be named, the nine of them were recruited in 2017 and it was clearly mentioned that subsequent to the completion of the probation period of one year, the department might extend it for another six months.
However, despite having completed three years now, there is still no effort or word from the department to regularise them.
