India, Sept. 9 -- Nine unions representing safety category employees have urged the Chairman and CEO of the Railway Board to withdraw a circular permitting contractual hiring of supervisors, field engineers and technicians in the Signal and Telecommunication Department across four railway zones on a two-year trial basis.
On May 6, the Railway Board issued a circular to the General Managers of four railway zones - Northeast Frontier, East Coast, South Western and Western -asking them to hire these personnel on a contractual basis as part of a two-year pilot project initially to assist signalling and telecom staff.
The Board justified the contractual hiring saying that the massive expansion of the railway network and implementation of the m...