No move to privatise MeECL: Tynsong

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaAugust 11, 2022

Deputy Chief Minister in-charge Power Prestone Tynsong on Wednesday ruled out any move to privatize the Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited (MeECL).

“I would only like to tell them (MeECL employees and engineers) don’t panic,”Tynsong told reporters.

The Coordination Committee of the Registered MeECL Association and Unions (CCORMAU) had recently staged a protest against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022 and moved to privatize the power sector.

Tynsong however said privatization will take place only when employees themselves wanted to do that through the state government.

“I am here on behalf of the state government. The state government owns this company so in the first place why should we privatize that is my point. Therefore even if the policy of the central government is like that nobody can stop it but the state government can stop it,” he said.

He said each and every state will also not like to privatize the power sector.