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Title - POOR CONDITION OF RAILWAY QUARTERS Railway union holds protestPosted by : Mafia on Sep 08, 2013 - 11:56:40 AM |
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Bathinda : Members of the Uttar Railway Mazdoor Union (URMU) staged a dharna at the Bathinda railway station under the leadership of Joginder Singh and Baldev Singh Punia.Pointing out the bad condition of the railway quarters, the union members demanded that the administration should either reconstruct or renovate the residential quarters.They also demanded that the wiring of these quarters also be changed as it was almost five-decade-old and was not safe enough to bear the increasing load.They said the railway authorities had been given a grant of Rs 2 crore out of which Rs 1.5 crore was to be spent on making purified drinking water available at the station and the rest was to be spent on laying water pipelines in the railway colony.They added that while only 50 per cent area had been covered with new pipelines, the entire sum had already been paid to the contractor.Sukhdarshan Singh, Anil Kumar, Lakhveer Singh, Mahinder Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Jagdish, Prakash Chand, Neel Kanth, Narinder Kumar Joshi, Dharmendar Kumar and Rajesh Sharma were amiong those present during the protest. |