A team of 10 delegates of the All India Railway Engineers Federation (AIREF) met Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda at his residence in New Delhi and submitted a memorandum containing demands, including, recognition to the AIREF, Group-B with gazetted status to its members and provision of higher salary.
The Minister assured to consider their demands after the parliament session. later, a Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting of AIREF was held in Utter Pradesh to finalise the memorandum for the 7th Pay Commission.
The meeting decided to demand for provision of grade pay of Rs 5400 (PB-3) to junior engineers and Rs 6,600 (PB-3) to senior section engineers. The AIREF will not stage any demonstration in the coming three months due to positive response of the Minister.
Secretary Bobin Mohanty, BP Dash and Sanjib Kumar represented the East Coast Railway Engineers Association (ECoREA).