Talks between DMRC, staff fail; Delhi Metro services to be hit from June 30

Delhi Metro services may be severely affected on Saturday after talks between DMRC and the non-executive staff fail on Friday afternoon.

As many as 9,000 employees of Delhi Metro are likely to go on strike from midnight, protesting over various issues including salary hike.

According to the news report, talks between the DMRC (Delhi Metro Rail Corporation) management and the staff have failed and the non-executive staff will be on strike from midnight.

One of the main reasons for the non-executive employees to protest is salary hike. Apart from this, there are also other reasons like fixed guidelines for sacking an employee and right to form a union. According to the Metro employees, the DMRC management has not kept the promises, which were made last year.

"Our first demand is that that the DMRC Staff Council be changed to a DMRC employees union as the council is not a constitutional body and so, it does not have any teeth," DMRC Staff Council secretary Ravi Bhardwaj said.

"Other demands include implementation of our Industrial Dearness Allowance (IDA) as per the 3rd pay revision scale. If our demands are not met by June 29, we will go on complete hunger strike and work in that condition, and drivers will drive trains in that condition. And, if anything happens to our members or to commuters then the DMRC shall be responsible for it," DMRC Staff Council secretary added.