Hyderabad: Railway agreement employees phase dharna on behalf of needs

Hyderabad: The train agreement employees presented a dharna before Rail Nilayam, Secunderabad on Thursday requiring to pay base pay and also work security to them according to work regulations.

Protestors explained that train agreement employees operating in various train terminals in Hyderabad and also Secunderabad department are struggling with issues like to obtain their real incomes, being manipulated by train service providers, no ATM cards are been offered to them and also the service provider has actually not provided any kind of Employees State Insurance (ESI) cards neither consultation letters.

M Venkatesh, president, Hyderabad Railway Contract Workers Union, stated, “We have been working for years together without being paid minimum wages or any social security benefits. We are compelled to work for 10-12 hours without any overtime payment. The contract workers are working in various departments like permanent way, mechanical, signal, operating, electrical, workshops, manufacturing units, station cleaning, OBHS, supply of bed rolls, loading and unloading of parcels and goods in the goods sheds and many more. All these jobs are perennial in nature. Many of us have been working against the sanctioned vacant posts for many years with a hope of getting regularised someday but nothing has happened yet. It is high time that the authorities have a look into our issues.”

“We are supposed to be paid Rs 654 per day and Rs 17,004 per month but the department is only giving Rs 7,000 to women workers and Rs 8,000 to men workers per month. The contractor is taking advantage of us and vexed with this issue we have staged dharna and also submitted a written representation letter to the officials of SCR , said Ramesh(name changed), a contract worker.

“For the previous numerous months, we are battling to handle our resources and also are not having any kind of well-being centers that consist of ESI cards and also PF. Whenever we ask the worried individual the factor for paying us much less than the service providers, they are intimidating to eliminate us from our tasks. It will certainly be much better if the SCR gives minimal incomes qualified centers as well as likewise expand work warranty to agreement employees. We require the authorities to take strict activity versus service providers,” stated an additional train agreement employee.

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