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Manoj Shinde, 1 of the cleaning staff, said workers are presently backmost to enactment and expressed restitution with the removal of the agency. (Express Photo)
The Pune railway medication has initiated the ineligible termination process against the bureau liable for cleaning trains astatine Pune’s washing areas aft its contractors were accused of abusive behaviour towards workers and underpaying them. The determination came aft The Indian Express reported connected the issue, pursuing the cleaning staff’s onslaught connected September 9.
Twenty days ago, hundreds of contract-based workers nether the agency, moving astatine 3 washing areas—New Washing Area, Old Washing Area, and Ghorpadi Integrated Cleaning Centre (GCIC) astatine Pune station—began an indefinite strike, demanding enactment against 2 contractors who had allegedly delayed salaries oregon paid lone fractional their monthly remuneration. The workers besides halted their enactment until their demands for information equipment, specified arsenic providing gloves and boots for cleaning bid toilets, were met.
After complaints were registered against the contractors astatine the Divisional Railway Manager’s office, the railway initiated an probe into the institution and recovered documents showing non-compliance with railway guidelines.
Shadab Jamal, elder Divisional Mechanical Engineer (Sr. DME) astatine Pune division, had earlier issued a showcause announcement to the contractors, giving them 14 days to respond. After getting nary clarification from the declaration agency, the railway decided to terminate the contract.
Rajkumar Bhogre, elder sectional technologist successful the Pune division, said aft the incident, a papers verification serviceman was appointed to oversee the issue. Now, aft serving the notice, the last termination process has begun.
“Once the termination process is complete, the process to prosecute a caller bureau volition beryllium initiated. As soon arsenic the tender process starts, an alternate bureau volition beryllium approached. The documents indispensable comply with railway guidelines,” Bhogre said.
Manoj Shinde, 1 of the cleaning staff, said workers are presently backmost to enactment and expressed restitution with the removal of the agency.
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