New Delhi: Delhi Metro’s non-executive staff (DMRC) on Sunday called off their ongoing protest after all the issues raised by them were amicably settled following several rounds of meetings and deliberations with DMRC’s managing director, Dr. Mangu Singh, and other senior officials.
The employees had threatened to go on strike from Monday, warning a complete shutdown of services if their demands were not met. They were demanding a hike in pay as well as rollback of disciplinary action against some employees.
After a one-hour long meeting, DMRC said in a statement on Sunday that the Metro services will continue as per schedule from Monday. “The issue was deliberated in detail at a high-level meeting chaired by Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, DS Mishra and Chief Secretary, NCT of Delhi, Dr. MM Kutty with DMRC’s MD, Dr. Mangu Singh,” read the statement.
The staff, including train operators, maintenance staff, station controllers and customer relation assistants, have been protesting since Friday against the management's alleged failure in implementing a two-year-old decision to upgrade their pay scales.
"We will gather at the Yamuna Bank station on Sunday evening. Thereafter, from 12 am hours of July 24, the protesting staff of around 9,000 will enforce a total shutdown," secretary of staff council Anil Kumar Mahato had said.
Delhi Metro had in 2015 agreed, “in principle", to upgrade pay scale of maintainers from Rs 8,000-14,410 to Rs 10,170-Rs 18,700 from July of that year. It was also decided to merge the pay scales Rs 13,500-Rs 25,520 and Rs 14,000-Rs 26,950.
A new pay scale of Rs 20,600-Rs 46,500 was to be introduced, according to the agreement, which was decided upon following a similar employee stir, Mahato had said.
“Since the recommendations of the 3rd pay commission have been accepted by the government and orders are to be issued any time, it is not an opportune moment to press for their demand for revision of pay scales at this juncture. All pay related issues shall be dealt shortly after issue of orders by the government," the DMRC management responded.
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