RailEnquiry

The Southern Railway has been directed by the Madras High Court to fill the vacancies of booking clerks as quickly as possible, preferably within four months.

The first bench comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam gave the direction while passing orders on a public interest writ petition from advocate S Sathiya Chandran, on Thursday.

It came to light from the counter-affidavit filed by the Southern Railways that many posts of booking clerks had been sanctioned, of which 68 were earmarked as booking clerks /officers. Therefore, the bench said that it was clear that there was insufficient number of booking clerks in many suburban railway stations.

Therefore, the bench directed the Railways to take steps to fill the vacancies.