-- Railway safety is in danger: ECoR engineers
BHUBANESWAR: Opposing railway board’s apathy towards their longstanding demand, several railway engineers from all three divisions Visakhapatnam, Sambalpur and Khurda Road, Mancheswar workshop and headquarters staged massive dharna in front of General Manager Office building under the banner of East Coast Railway Engineers Association (ECoREA) here on Thursday.
ECoR engineers claimed that if their genuine demands would not be fulfilled in near future, then the safety of railway would be in danger. Their memorandum states that though Indian railway is the largest engineering organisation, but it does not have separate recognised platform for engineers like the Central and the State Government bodies. Even Justice Khanna Committee’s recommendation on safety of railway was not accepted by the board, they added.
“They are unhappy with wrong policies that placed below nurses in pay structures. Both graduate engineer and nurse join railways in same grade pay and engineer never gets a promotion in service period where as nurse gets two promotions,” said General Secretary ECoREA Bobbin Mohanty and then added, “both railway engineers and their assisting staff work in same Group-C cadre which weakens managerial stand of engineers on matters of railway safety.”
Railway engineers warn that if their 10 points demands will not be full filled at the earliest then the demonstration will be more aggressive all over the country and there will definitely endanger safe movement of 13 million passengers daily.
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