With privatisation of the Railways, trade unions fear that moving people and goods by trains will become more expensive, affecting the entire country.
Santosh Roy, President, All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), told BusinessLine on the sidelines of a protest here on Wednesday that there were apprehensions that there could be large-scale employment of contract workers in the Indian Railways, even as permanent workers lose their jobs.
Earlier, other trade union bodies like the All India Railway Federation and National Federation of Indian Railwaymen also sought a clear bluebrint on how the Railways intended to turnaround production units by corporatising them.
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