Source: www.thehindu.com
Posted by: ID on 08-07-2016 00:38,
Type: IR Affairs
Protests against PM
Employees walked out of the railway station after the Bidar-Yeshwanthpur train left at 6 p.m. recently. They held placards and shouted slogans against the Union government. They also shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and finance Minister Arun Jaitley. They demanded the closing of the Bibek Debroy Committee on Mobilization of Resources for Major Railway Projects and Restructuring of Railway Ministry and Railway Board.
The protesters also burnt an effigy of Mr. Modi.
More deductions
"The much-hyped Pay Commission report is eyewash. It does not increase the salaries of any employee substantially. The increases are slight but the deductions have been increased by several times. The net result is that we are getting lesser money than we could be getting after the Sixth Pay Commission. This is the worst Pay Commission since Independence," Ramesh Kumar, president, Bidar unit, South Central Railway Employees Union, said.
Addressing his colleagues, Mr. Kumar added that the Pay Commission and the share market linked new pension scheme were sounding a death knell to Union government employees.
Mr. Modi, a leader who has claimed to have risen to the post of PM after selling tea in railway stations in his childhood, has betrayed railway employees, he said.