Ludhiana, Feb. 23 -- Railway running staff staged a protest in the running room of the Ludhiana station here, seeking their promotions, on Saturday. The protest was held against the senior divisional electrical engineer/operations (Sr DEE/OP) and the additional divisional railway manager (ADRM), workers said.

The divisional officers were in the running room for an inspection. The staff have been protesting for a month. The union of loco pilots had put forward five demands in a meeting on January 9. The loco pilots had demanded promotion of senior assistant loco pilots to loco pilot shunting and also sought redressal of the issue of shortage of shunters in the division. Shunting trains is the process of sorting and grouping freight cars i...