The Dorbar Shnong of Mawmluh has stated that it is willing to give full control over the benighted Mawmluh Cherra Cements Ltd (MCCL) to the State government on condition that the Dorbar Shnong will have no part in the new set-up or agreements related to acquiring limestone and raw materials to run the factory.
Informing that the lease agreement between the Dorbar Shnong and MCCL expired in 2017, executive members of the Dorbar Shnong said, “We leave it to the wisdom of the state government to make the cement factory functional by whatever means and to end the misery of the employees working at the factory immediately.”
The employees are owed several months in salary arrears as the financially struggling state-owned company limps on, barely clinging to life.
Informing that the Power Department has also disconnected the cement factory since February 3 owing to the outstanding debt the MCCL owes to the utility, Banlam K Lyngdoh , Assistant Secretary of the Dorbar Shnong said, “When we met the Chief Minister in July and October 2020 we asked him to unearth the corruption and the mismanagement of funds in the MCCL because a project earmarked for Rs 84 crore incurred an expenditure of Rs 144 core and now they are saying that an additional amount of Rs 190 crore is needed to revive the factory.”
However, despite these meetings, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma, he added, did not show willingness to tackle the problems.
“This time we have decided to allow the state government to proceed forwards on its own leaving us alone and to do whatever it thinks best to make the cement factory functional and to address the problems and grievances face by the employees of the factory,” Lyngdoh said.
