HYDERABAD: The South Central Railway Mazdoor Union, affiliated to the All-India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF), has threatened to launch an agitation resenting the attitude of the Centre in not constituting the sixth Central Pay Commission (CPC).

AIRF assistant general secretary Ch. Sankara Rao in a statement issued here on Saturday said that the Centre failed to appoint the sixth CPC and solve the anomalies in the implementation of the fifth CPC.

He lamented that the merger of 50 per cent DA with basic pay for all purposes was implemented from April last year instead of July 2002. Though anomalies in the fifth CPC were to be redressed within a year, they had not been rectified even after a decade.

Running allowances

Mr. Rao, who is also the general secretary of South Central Railway Mazdoor Union (SCRMU), termed the Running Allowances Committee report detrimental to the interests of the running staff. The pay element for specified purpose proposed by the panel was 10 per cent instead of 30 per cent.

The retirement benefits had been slashed from 50 to 20 per cent, he said adding that the rate of kilometreage proposed was Rs. 83.80 paise instead of Rs. 75.05 paise.

Mr. Rao said the Centre was adopting confrontationist attitude and turning a deaf ear to the grievances of the railwaymen. He urged the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister to convene a meeting of the leaders of the JCM Constituent Organisations of Central Government employees and hold discussions.

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