Metro staff call off protest over hike
New Delhi, July 23: The Delhi Metro on Sunday said its non-executive employees have called off their ongoing protest after their issues were amicably settled following meetings with DMRC managing director Mangu Singh and other officials.
The non-executive staff, including train operators, maintenance staff, station controllers and customer relation assistants, have been protesting since July 21 against the management’s alleged failure in implementing a two-yearold decision to upgrade their pay scales.
They had threatened to bring train services to a halt from Monday if their demands, including a pay hike, were not met.
DMRC spokesman Anuj Dayal said Delhi Metro services would continue as per schedule on Monday.
“The ongoing protest by DMRC’s non executive employees was called off on Sunday after all the issues raised by the agitating employees were amicably settled following many rounds of meetings and deliberations with DMRC’s managing director Mangu Singh and other senior officials,” he said.
He said the issue was also deliberated in detail on Saturday in a highlevel meeting chaired by secretary, ministry of urban development, D.S. Mishra, and chief secretary of Delhi government M.M. Kutty with Mangu Singh.
Secretary of staff council Anil Kumar Mahato had earlier said that Delhi Metro had in 2015 agreed, “in-principle”, to upgrade pay scale of maintainers from `8,000-14,410 to `10,170-Rs 18,700 from July of that year. It was also decided to merge the pay scales `13,500-`25,520 and `14,000-`26,950.
A new pay scale of `20,600-`46,500 was to be introduced, according to the agreement, which was decided upon following a similar employee stir, he had said.