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Demand for providing additional safety measures for railway employees so as to ensure their safety during the pandemic has increased after the death of a railway gatekeeper on Wednesday.
Dakshin Railway Employees’ Union said that had the railway administration taken adequate precaution the life of gatekeeper, Muthukaruppan (32), could have been saved.
A father of two children, he was deployed at a railway level crossing near Tiruppuvanam railway station.
“We demand that the administration takes safety measures on a war-footing,” said DREU divisional secretary, R. Sankaranarayanan.
He charged that the administration that had provided masks, gloves, face shields and sanitisers to the railway staff during the first wave of COVID-19, had failed to take similar measures during the second wave that was claiming more lives.
Privatisation of public sector units flayed
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‘No announcement on revoking freeze on DA’
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‘No announcement on revoking freeze on DA’ It is a budget encouraging privatisation of public sector units, according to Southern Railway Mazdoor Union.
In a statement, its assistant divisional secretary V. Ramkumar said that the Union Budget was anti-labourers. Implementation of the budgetary proposals would do away with the Life Insurance Corporation. The new Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess on fuel would lead to price rise. However, there was no guarantee that the funds mobilised through the tax would benefit the farmers.
Central Government employees were disappointed as there was no announcement on revoking the freeze on dearness allowance, he said.
Decides to engage regular employees as alternative for dak khalasis or ‘bungalow peons’
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CHENNAI: At a time when the Indian Railways is reeling under severe staff crunch, the national transporter has decided to engage its regular employees as an alternative for dak khalasis or ‘bungalow peons’, who were assigned to do household chores at the officers’ residences. This seems to be a puzzling detour for the transporter that is attempting to usher in “modernity” in services and infrastructure through privatisation.
The rampant and illegal engagement of regular railway staff for doing household chores at officers’ houses, has been for the first time allowed ‘officially’ by the Railway Board, the apex body of Indian Railways. The railway employee unions have strongly objected to the move and dubbed this as an attempt to legitimise misuse of railway staff.