Tuesday 27 March 2012

Railway Employees to march to Parliament tomorrow


New Delhi, Mar 27, 2012(PTI): Seeking adequate budgetary support and filling up vacant posts in railways, its employees will march to Parliament tomorrow to press their various demands.
Com. Shiva Gopal Mishra, Gen. Secretary, All-India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF) .
“We want government should provide adequate budgetary support to railways because the national transporter is facing a financial crisis and passing through a very critical stage,” said All-India Railwaymen’s Federation (AIRF) general secretary Shiv Gopal Mishra.
Besides, AIRF also wants that the recruitment drive in railways be speeded up to fill about 2.5 lakh vacant posts.
“We have a slew of long pending demands which include removal of anomalies of the Sixth Central Pay Commission, relaxation in duty hours, scrapping of New Pension Scheme, implementation of various welfare schemes announced by the earlier Minister for Railways, stopping of outsourcing and privatisation and recruitment of the wards of the Railway employees,” Mishra said.


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