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Southern Railway Mazdoor Union, Tiruchi, has urged the Southern Railway General Manager to take steps to fill up vacancies and create additional posts at Tiruchi division in view of the increased work load.The union office bearers handed over a memorandum containing a set of demands to the Southern Railway General Manager Rakesh Misra during his visit to the city on Tuesday.The memorandum said train services had increased all over Tiruchi Division with double line to be completed in the chord line section from Villupuram to Tiruchi. Considering the present and future workloads, additional trackmen should be posted in the division. There were more than 100 vacancies in the Station Master category in the division. The station masters are forced to work in roster and their request for voluntary retirement was not being accepted.The union requested the General Manager to sanction over time allowance to all station masters in Tiruchi division as was being sanctioned in other divisions. The memorandum further said many vacancies prevailed in Group ‘D’ operating staff. Implementation of eight hours roster for Traffic staff working in stations and gatekeepers of Traffic / Engineering department in the chord line section and creation of additional posts of ticket checking staff were among their other demands.