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New Delhi: With Delhi Metro staff threatening to go on strike with the demand on pay scale revision and other things, Delhi High Court has restrained them from going on strike. The Delhi High Court has stated that closing down on metro services will cause a lot of inconvenience to the commuters. High Court has extended the order and restrained the metro staff from going on strike. As per current data, approximately 13,000 are employed in Delhi Metro and there is over 11,000 non-executive staffs. Justice Pratibha Rani extended the interim order has directed the metro employees not to go on strike till further orders and sought their response on a petition by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation seeking that they be restrained from going on a strike. The High Court in an ex-parte interim order on June 29, had restrained DMRC staff from going on their planned strike starting from June 30. The stay has been order by HC stating that it will cause huge inconvenience to commuters. The matter is...

New Delhi:  It is good news for Delhi metro commuters that the big trouble is now hold for some days. After the interference of Delhi High Court, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Employees Union (DMRCEU) and the Staff Council have postponed their strike (total shutdown plan) for later but they are on partial strike which was started from 19 June. On 29 June High Court has given a huge relief to the Delhi-NCR residents, have stop from thousands of employees of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) who were on strike. Employees had scheduled to go on strike at midnight after talks were negotiated by both sides. After the talks between DMRC and employees failed on Friday, about 9,000 non-executive employees were threatening to go on strike from Saturday, due to the strike, Metro services might have shut down and millions of people might faced inconvenience. Secretary Staff Council has also written a letter to Chief Minister Delhi Arvind Kejriwal, employees have asked his cooperation in ...

New Delhi: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Employees Union started hunger strike by 25 June and they will continue till their demand will fulfilled even they have decide to complete close of metro service by 30 June. Since 2015 dispute regarding salary hike and promotion is going,  employees of DMRC has been always consider as member of DMRC family but their problem has not yet resolved. From 19 June nearly 13000 non-executive staff members, including train operators, maintenance staff and station controllers, have been protesting at various depots and control rooms of the Delhi Metro. A letter in this regard written by the General Secretary Mahaveer Parsad of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Employees Union (DMRCEU) on 14-06-2018 addressed to the Managing Director of DMRC and copy circulated to various other authorities /ministries departments. Our history is best example that any movement at starting period is faster and it get slower in its middle period and the last of its...

New Delhi: Delhi metro commuters may be in trouble. Metro services may be closed by 30 June for Delhiites, if on ongoing strike continue. On 19 June Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Employees Union (DMRCEU) started strike, they wore black band on their hand while working at their assigned place. And on 24 June thousands of employees gather near ITO metro station and decided to sit at the platforms of metro stations, depots, work places, and boycott Rest room, and their lunch time. This was the same day when Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) was celebrating the inauguration of Mundka-Bahadurgarh corridor. And employees of DMRC were on strike, this ongoing strike issue is not a new issue. Their demands are as follow:- To recognize DMRC Employees Union by the DMRC management. To implement memorandum of undertaking signed between Management and staff council in letter and spirit. To implement Schedule-A PSU pay scale and allowances for non-executive employees in line with executive emp...

New Delhi:   On 24 June Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Employees Union (DMRCEU) started  strike, thousands of employees gather near ITO metro station. This was the same day when Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) was celebrating the inauguration of Mundka-Bahadurgarh corridor. And employees of DMRC were on strike, this ongoing strike issue is not a new issue. Their demands are as follow:- To recognize DMRC Employees Union by the DMRC management. To implement memorandum of undertaking between Management and staff council in letter and spirit. To implement Schedule-A PSU pay scale and allowances for non-executive employees in line with executive employees. To restate all terminated employees alleging fake charges under autocratic policies of the management  further  to take appropriate action against the official responsible for a huge loss of INR 4000 crore to DMRC due to irregularities in Delhi  Metro Airport express line project. DMRC employees union fu...

On 23-07-2017 to solve the problem of IDA pay revision agreement between DMRC employees and DMRC could not give satisfactory result to DMRC employees which was about to give within two months. On 08.06.2018 a letter has been submitted to the secretary staff council by all the members of Delhi Metro Rail Cooperation Employees Union (DMRCEU) to bring all the agreement which are signed  by DMRC on 23-07-2017. As per DMRC rule prevail till now is, After completion of five year in one Grade with satisfactory record each and every employees will promoted to next grade .Implementation of office order no. PP-2847-2017 on 2-09-2017 had brought discontinuity and inconsistency in upgradation of the scale. Now sometimes people even stuck and do not get any upgradation in their grade even more than 10 years. All Delhi Metro Rail Cooperation employees will be on strike from 19-06-2018, with different features of strike they are as follows: On 19-06-2018   all the employees of DMRC will...

Highlights DMRC’s non-executive staff will start protesting from Monday, demanding a resolution of pending issues submitted by them to management. They will start protest by wearing black arm bands and participating in sit-ins at different stations as well as their work stations. They have, however, threatened to go on a complete shutdown of services on November 1, 2017, if their demands are not met. New Delhi: After July 2017 strike , the non-executive staff of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) have again threatened to go on a strike from Monday. The staff members have warned of a “complete shutdown” if their demands on pay anomaly, reinstatement of terminated staff, recognition of employees union  and other pending issues are resolved. Talking about the impact of protests on train operations, Mahavir Prasad, the General Secretary of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Employees Union (DMRCEU) through a press release said that the protesting staffs will start wear...

New Delhi: Metro travellers who use the Metro to commute to work will have to face a tough time as the contract workers of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation"s (DMRC) resorting to protests once again. The contract workers have been protesting since August 17 demanding pending payments since nine months from DMRC and FEMC Pratibha. Apart from sending half of his monthly income home to his mother and three siblings in Katihar, Bihar, 19-year-old Anzar Alam saves a tiny sum every month for emergencies. But now that his village has been hit by a flood, he feels helpless. “I haven’t been paid in the last two months, so I have spent my savings on rent and food…I need money urgently so my family in Katihar can survive,” said Alam, one of the 1,600 labourers with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) protesting at Jantar Mantar since August 17. Along with the labourers, contractors too have taken to the streets demanding “pending payments of nine months from DMRC ...

New Delhi: Metro trains in the Capital will run as usual on Monday, with employees of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) calling off their strike subject to implementation of their demands assured by the DMRC Management in a series of high level meetings on July 22 & July 23 till evening. “The ongoing protest by DMRC’s non-executive employees was called off on Sunday evening after all the issues raised by the agitating employees were  assured to be settled amicably following many rounds of meetings and deliberations with DMRC’s managing director, Dr. Mangu Singh and other senior officials,” said Anuj Dayal, chief spokesperson at DMRC. “In light of the above, the Delhi Metro services will continue as per schedule tomorrow (Monday),” he added. The announcement came after the corporation assured and agreed to the demands of its protesting non-executive employees that included reinstatement of Ex. RTI Supervisor Vinod Shah who was remov...

New Delhi: Delhi Metro’s non-executive staff, including train operators and maintenance workers, today launched a broad level protest demanding reinstatement a metro employee terminated in last month illegally and withdrawals of all charge sheet, show cause notices served to other metro employees with malafide intention.  The protesting staff, wearing black bands, gathered at metro stations and train depots across Delhi-NCR and raised slogans against the management in between their work shifts, staff council secretary Anil Kumar Mahato and joint secretary Mukesh Kumar, who is leading the protests. There was no large-scale disruption in services. The protesting staffers also highlighted alleged financial irregularities and corruption in recruitment of neara and dear once by the management in the organisation. Mr. Mahato has threatened to escalate the agitation and enforce a “total shutdown” of metro operations on July 24, 2017 if the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (D...