Railway employees’ union fight for common man’s cause
Hindustan Times: December 27
Gorakhpur, HT Correspondent
IT was perhaps the first instance in India of its kind when the employees union of any department hit the street to draw the attention of government over the grievances and hardship faced by the common people.
North Eastern Railway Mazoor Union (NERMU) took out a procession, burnt the symbolic effigy of shooting prices of essential commodities, staged demonstration at district magistrate office and handed over a six-point memorandum to the district officials on Wednesday.
Members of NERMU shouted slogans against failure of Union government for its failure to check the unemployment, corruption and black marketing. The procession converted into a demonstration at district magistrate office.
Expression his views on this occasion, national general secretary of NERMU KL Gupta expressed solidatory of the employees and working class with the grievances of the common people and demanded DM to take initiative to check the black marketing and rising up prices of essential commodities.
Later, they handed over a six-point memorandum to the district officials and expressed their concern over the pathetic condition of electricity, roads and fresh water supply in various colonies of the city.
They demanded to deploy forces on the outlets under public distribution system to bring transparency in distribution of kerosene oil and food grains.
The employees’ leaders invited the attention of district administration over choked pipelines in various localities and expressed their displeasure that street light points remain on in day time, while at night they used to be off and expressed hope that administration would take necessary steps to resolve these problems.