Title - Unresolved issues: Konkan Railway Corporation staff protest

MARGAO: A large number of Konkan railway employees carried out a 'dharna' at the Margao railway station on Thursday wearing short pants and vests to protest non-implementation of the demands made by the Union of Konkan Railwaymen (UKR)."We tried our level best to bring to the kind attention of the management towards various pending unresolved issues, but our efforts were in vain and we have been forced to carry out this this 'dharna'," said UKR's general secretary M A Khekedar.Khekedar added that the employees hoped their demands would be implemented at the earliest to maintain healthy industrial relations.Konkan Railway Corporation's PR manager Baban Ghatge, however, said that the matter was out of his hands but their demands had been conveyed to his higher-ups.Some of UKR demands were that they be given a bonus on par with Indian Railways, that all the recommendations of the sixth central pay commission be implemented and that there be proper redressal of anomalies in promotion policy and transfer policy. Incidentally, their dress code for the 'dharna' was reflective of their demand that they be issued previous pending uniforms immediately.