Delhi Metro | DMRC contract workers go on strike due to non-payment of salary
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 ...