Railway employees’ federation threatens strike over Centre’s plans of ‘privatisation’
Privatisation has ‘jeopardised’ railways and ‘endangered’ safety of passengers across the world, claimed All India Railwaymens Federation on Tuesday and threatened an indefinite strike if the Centre goes ahead with ‘plans of selling the sector’.
Member of the body will meet the committee (formed by the government to look into the privatisation issue) on Wednesday in Delhi and will try to negotiate on the issue and convince the government that they should not go ahead with the plan of the privatisation.
‘But if they do not agree for any settlement with our federation, then definitely, we will ask all our colleagues, associations, unions and federations of the railways and jointly we will go on an indefinite strike,’ general secretary of All India Railwaymens Federation, Shiva Gopal Mishra, told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.
He said the employees were opposing the move as the system of railways has been ‘jeopardised’ wherever privatisation had been done the world over. ‘We are opposing the privatisation of Indian railways because our railways is entirely different from the other railways world over. ‘Here the railway transport is the system for the poorest of the poor. And in other countries, they have multi-transport systems.
Member of the body will meet the committee (formed by the government to look into the privatisation issue) on Wednesday in Delhi and will try to negotiate on the issue and convince the government that they should not go ahead with the plan of the privatisation.
‘But if they do not agree for any settlement with our federation, then definitely, we will ask all our colleagues, associations, unions and federations of the railways and jointly we will go on an indefinite strike,’ general secretary of All India Railwaymens Federation, Shiva Gopal Mishra, told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.
He said the employees were opposing the move as the system of railways has been ‘jeopardised’ wherever privatisation had been done the world over. ‘We are opposing the privatisation of Indian railways because our railways is entirely different from the other railways world over. ‘Here the railway transport is the system for the poorest of the poor. And in other countries, they have multi-transport systems.