SHILLONG: The Meghalaya State Housing Board Employees Union (MSHBEN) has informed that the employees of the board have not received their salaries for the last 15 months.
Aggrieved by the non-payment of the salaries, the Union submitted a memorandum to Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman, Hoping Stone Lyngdoh on Thursday seeking his intervention in the matter.
“This is not the first time that we have not received our salaries. Earlier, the board could not provide our salaries for five months (from September 2012 to January 2013),” MSHBEN general secretary D Lyngdoh stated in the memorandum adding that the employees are facing immense difficulties in meeting their day to day expenses.
“There is mounting pressure from house owners to vacate the houses due to the non-payment of rent. Store owners are reluctant to provide us with the commodities,” Lyngdoh said while urging the concerned authorities to the release the pending salaries on humanitarian grounds.