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DREU demands more for Kollam

KOLLAM: The two-day Thiruvanathapuram Division conference of the Divisional Railway Employees Union (DREU) which concluded here on Thursday called upon Railway authorities to speed up all development projects sanctioned for Kollam. The demand was made in a resolution unanimously passed at the conference.

The resolution stated that prior to dieselisation, Kollam was an important station with a loco shed for steam engines. But with dieselisation, the loco shed was closed down and the station’s importance began to wane. It was the DREU which then started an agitation for reviving the station.

As a result of the agitation, the Railways sanctioned the Mainline Electrical Multiple Unit (MEMU) project in Kollam.

Though tender formalities for the project worth Rs.58 crore had been completed, the work was yet to begin. The DREU wanted the Railway authorities to ensure that the work commenced at the earliest.

The resolution also called upon the Railway authorities to immediately commission platform numbers seven and eight at the Kollam railway station.

Though construction of these platforms had been completed a couple of years ago, they had not been commissioned.

Inaugurating the delegates’ session of the conference on Thursday, State general secretary of the CITU M.M. Lawrence said that the UPA government at the Centre was implementing the imperialist agenda. The Railways recruiting contract workers and the privatisation of public sector undertakings were part of this agenda.

He called for the unity of workers all over the country for successfully opposing such policies of the Centre.

The session was presided over by divisional president of the DREU N. Padmakumar.

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