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Loco Pilots (LPs) and Assistant Loco Pilots (ALPs), affiliated with the All India Loco Running Staff Association (AILRSA), staged a hunger onslaught adjacent the DRM’s bureau present connected Tuesday. The protest, called by the association’s cardinal moving committee, sought redressal of long-pending service-related issues.
Holding banners and placards, the protesters raised slogans successful enactment of their demands. Their cardinal demands see an summation successful the 25% kilometrage allowance exemption from Income Tax, expediting the recruitment and grooming of ALPs, ensuring that moving unit are not kept distant from office for much than 48 hours, and limiting nighttime work to 2 consecutive nights.
They besides raised respective section grievances of the Waltair Division, including utilisation of LPs for 12-hour duties, granting lone 12 hours of travel remainder alternatively of the prescribed 16 hours, and bypassing designated office oregon alleviation points astatine Simhachalam North and Vizianagaram nether the pretext of unit underutilisation oregon gait congestion.
CITU State wide caput Ch. Narasinga Rao and territory wide caput R.K.S.V. Kumar joined the protestation and expressed solidarity with the striking staff.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Narasinga Rao demanded the withdrawal of the Centre’s 4 Labour Codes, alleging that they were anti-worker and tilted successful favour of managements and industrialists.
AILRSA zonal president S.K. Choubey, cardinal vice president B.V.S.V. Raju, associated divisional caput T.H. Krishna, subdivision caput M. Chinnodu, and R.V.S.S. Rao, zonal president of East Coast RSU, besides addressed the protesters.
