Letter to CHief Labour Commissioner

To,
The Chief Labour Commissioner (C)
Ministry of Labour
Sharam Shakti Bhawan
New Delhi

Respected sir,


This Association gave a call to the entire Loco Running Staff over the Indian Railway to observe 24 hrs Fast on 8th Oct, 09 from 0/hrs to 0/hrs. Such a drastic Trade Union action is a natural out come of the apathy showing by the Ministry of Railways on the demands put forward by the workers and the Association.

The several protest programs were conducted, number of memorandum at different occasions since April 2008 have been submitted to different concerned authorities/Committees including the Hon’ble MR and the Railway Board. We also met the Railway Board Officials repeatedly apprised our grievances, we also approach to around 400 member of Parliament (Loksabha / Rajyasabha) and the Central Ministers and placed our grievances for its redressal.

1. The 6th CPC allowed a Grade Pay of Rs. 1900/- for the Asst. Loco Pilot of I.R which is not commensurate with the responsibility attached to the post. We demands to raise the grade pay to Rs 2800/- for Asst. Loco Pilot. Besides we demanded different and distinctive grade pay for Loco Pilot, Goods, Passenger and Mail on the consideration of functional difference among them.

2. Revising of Running allowance, in accordance with the formula of Running allowance Committee 1980, based on TA rate Rs. 210/- for ALP whose GP is below Rs. 4200/- and Rs. 340/- for LPs whose GP is Rs. 4200/-


3. Restrict the duty hour at a streach to 8 hrs and judicious review of HOER.

A detail memorandum on the grievances submitted to Ministry of Railways is enclosed herewith which is self explanatory.

At this juncture on behalf of the entire Loco Running Staff, we request for your kind intervention to avoid unpleasant situation in Railways and also request to persuade the Ministry of Railway to concede the demands.

Thanking you,

Your,s faithfully
M. N. Prasad