The embattled Meghalaya Energy Corporation Ltd (MeECL) has to double up on officials in senior posts because there is a shortage in qualified officers, Power Minister James Sangma said in the Assembly today.
Congress legislator Zenith Sangma, during Question Hour, said that it was not appropriate that the same person should occupy the post of Chairman-Managing Director and Director of Finance in the public sector utility.
In his reply, James said that MeECL had, in the past, requested a separate official to be the Finance Director but the “Department of Personnel had expressed its inability to do so because there is a shortage of officers.”
The opposition MLA also said that representatives from the Finance and the Planning Departments should be on the MeECL’s board of directors. He called for the Secretary of the Power Department to be a member of the board, which, despite MeECL being a large company, only has three directors.
