The Hindu Business Line : Railwaymen union's meet starts today

The 82nd annual conference of All India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF) is being held here. The three-day conference, to begin on Tuesday, will be attended by railway employees from all over the country.

Addressing newspersons here on Monday, Mr Umraomal Purohit, President, and Mr J.P. Chaubey, General Secretary of AIRF, said the conference would deliberate on various issues including the demand for grant of interim relief at the rate of 15 per cent of pay plus dearness pay with a minimum increase of Rs 1,000 per month for serving employees and 15 per cent of basic pension including dearness relief to the tune of 50 per cent subject to a minimum increase of Rs 500 to the pensioners with retrospective effect from January , 2006.

"We are meeting the Chairman of Pay Commission, Mr Justice Srikrishna, to discuss it in Mumbai on November 24", they said, pointing out that the railway men would observe All India Demands Day on January 9, 2007, to press for their various demands.

Various issues

They would include, withdrawal of the new contributory pension scheme and the continuation of the old scheme, appointment of a high-powered committee, to be headed by an eminent judge, to adjudicate on the issues relating to duty hours of the running staff and other safety category staff, creation of additional posts for operation and maintenance of new assets being created and new trains introduced, granting of additional allowance to all railway employees working in disturbed areas and to those engaged in hazardous duties; scrapping of the anti-labour report of the Running Allowance Committee 2002; filling up of vacancies, streamlining of procedures of recruitment, selection and aptitude tests and stopping offloading of perennial nature of jobs to outside agencies.

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