The East Coast Railway Engineers’ Association (ECoREA) under the banner of All India Railway Engineers Federation (AIREF) observed a protest week from August 3 to 7 demanding social status.
During the week, they came to their workplaces by wearing black badges and discharged their official work as usual. At the end, the ECoREA took out a mass rally from Mancheswar Carriage Repair Workshop to General Manger’s building at Chandrasekharpur here. More than 100 diploma and graduate engineers joined the rally.
later, the ECoREA submitted a seven-point charter of demands to the General Manager of Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu. The railway engineers alleged that while Group-D employees of railway have been upgraded to Group-C, graduate engineers and diploma engineers have not been upgraded to Group-B.
The demands include Group-B status to the all railway engineers, recognition to the AIREF, GP 6600 with PB-3 to SSEs and GP 5400 with PB-3 to junior engineers, time bound promotion, removal of all anomalies of the 6th
pay commission, removal of new pension scheme and inclusion of parents in the pass rule, said ECoREA President Bobin Mohanty.