Railway tech supervisors threaten to take warpath
NT Bureau: Chennai, Sept 10:
'We have no other option but to go on a strike if the government remains silent on setting up Sixth Pay Commission', M Shanmugam, president (central) of Indian Railways Technical Supervisors' association, has said.
At a press meet here, Shanmugam charged Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram with refusing to set up the Sixth Pay Commission.
'Our salary has not been revised for the past 20 years and the Finance Minister has not showed empathy to our 'reasonable' demands', he said.
He further said the government was recruiting only two employees in the place of three. 'The Railway Minister keeps announcing new trains in new routes regularly, but without sufficient workforce, how can we manage?' wonders Shanmugam.
Munuswamy, all-India vice-president of the association, said the technical supervisors were the 'veins' of the railways and the government should consider their demands.
Other office-bearers of the association were also present at the press meet.