Members of the East Coast Railway (ECoR) Shramik Union, Brahmapur staged a 72-hour silent demonstration in front of the union office near the Brahmapur railway station from Tuesday pressing for fulfilment of their demands.
The demands included implementation of the old pension scheme instead of the new one, hike in the minimum wages, stopping of privatisation in departmental works and others.The members pointed out that even though the union’s Khurda Road division secretary had submitted a memorandum to the Khurda Road Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), no steps have been taken to meet the demands.
Among others, K Srinivas Rao, MT Rao, HS Reddy, DSN Murthy and BCH Sethi led the agitation.