New Delhi, June 24 -- Left trade unions Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on Monday protested against Railway's "re-engaging" retired staff as contract employees in all posts and demanded for immediate recruitment in the vacant posts.
The trade unions said that Government must conduct recruitment in more than three lakh posts vacant for the past few years.
"This action of the Board instead of filling the total 2.5 to 3 lakh vacancies in Railways is a cruelty against the huge unemployed youth awaiting recruitment. The Modi Government at the centre which promised two crores jobs per year a decade back before coming to power is pursuing this policy of furthering the precarious natured jobs which ...