The ‘unilateral decision’ of the Railway Board directing TTEs (Travelling Ticket Examiners) to take care of five coaches instead of three has drawn flak from the East Coast Railway Shramik Union (ECoRSU).
The union leaders and activists staged a lunch hour demonstration opposite the Divisional Railway Manager’s office here on Thursday to protest against the decision which they felt would increase the workload of TTEs and affect their functioning.
Union working president D. Shaleel said that the All India Railway Men’s Federation (AIRF) already raised an objection with the Railway Board for not taking the organised labour into confidence and seeking withdrawal of the ‘arbitrary orders’.
The union leaders also sought among other things payment of TA, which was withdrawn last year, to ticket checking staff, payment of fixed TA to TTEs of Waltair Division as was being done in South Eastern Railway and other zones, supply of uniforms and suitable chairs to reservation staff at PRS in Visakhapatnam, provision of railings and AC at the booking offices in Visakhapatnam and at Vizianagaram.
A memorandum was presented to Senior Divisional Commercial Manager M. Yelvender Yadav after the protest.
ECoRSU divisional coordinator V. Narasinga Rao, deputy divisional coordinator P.J.J. Raju and assistant general secretary B. Damodara Rao spoke.
