Letter to Sri Siva Gopal Mishra by MNP

To,

The General Secretary

All India Railway men’s Federation

New Delhi,

Dear Com,

   The Loco Running Staff of Indian Railway are very much thankful for your greeting to our 19^th BGM held at Bangaluru on date 16^th & 17^th May 2012. AILRSA always supported by its active participation to the call of struggle on the genuine cause of Railwaymen / Central Government employee whether we consulted or not before a decision of a struggle is taken, and in future also we do that.

   Com, it is well known to you that the railway administration has been dragging the various issues of Loco Running Staff, related to their appropriate grade pay, reckoning the rate of running allowance based on RAC 1980 formula, reclassification of Loco Running Staff (Review of HOER), additional allowance to all Loco Running Staff, since last four years, although the Railway administration maintained all through RLC conciliation that all the matters are under active consideration, but the result was not satisfactory resulted with failure of conciliation which brought the National Industrial Tribunal. In-addition to this various decision came from LEO, LABOUR COURTS or from Labour  Commissioner   at   the    initiative   of    different  branches   of   AILRSA   to  reclassify  the

Loco Pilot Mail/Express as intensive restricting their duty hour for six hours only, periodical rest for 30 + 16hrs, call for duty after 16 + 2 hrs rest and lastly Karnataka High Court also gave a Judgment for the periodical rest for 30 + 16hrs, and on this issue also the Railway Board not seen sincere to implement it. Further about 17000 vacancies are lying in loco running cadre alone excluding the creation of post for new introduction train causing unsafe working. No doubt after our sustained pressure some recruitment has recently been done and some are under process. The AIRF has also raised this issue of filling up the vacancies at its appropriate level and for which I am really thankful. Further the Loco Running Staff again discriminated on various issue like MACP, SRVRS etc for which continuously AILRSA has been trying to resolve this issue and some modification had been done but not to fully satisfaction. Com, the Loco Running Staff of Indian Railways had been looking forward and was expecting a positive support from AIRF to our movement.

  And at this outset I would like to let you appraise the sentiments of the Loco Running Staff over Indian Railway which is badly hurt by the un-expectable representation of Comrade Umraomal Purohit in PNM at Railway Board level which was held on 23^rd & 24^th Feb 2012 against the constitution of NIT to adjudication on our dispute.

                                          With greetings,

                                                                                                      Your’s Comradely

                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                            M. N. Prasad

                                                                                                          Secretary General

                                                                                                                   AILRSA