Promotion norms: Rly public relations officers threaten dharna

The Indian Railway Public Relations Officials Welfare Society today announced that its members would sit on an indefinite dharna outside the office of the North Western Railway General Manager here from Friday.
The society alleged that the Railways had been ignoring their long-pending demand of promotions as per rules.
Promotional avenues for public relations officers were clearly laid down in a gazette notification in 1982, but these "have not been implemented so far due to which we are suffering a lot", society general secretary Yashwant Kumar told reporters here today.
"We have been raising our demands and submitted several representations to the government in the past 20 years, but the grievances remained unsolved," he said.

He said representatives from different regions would participate in the dharna.
"Due to the anomaly in promotions, senior PROs have to work under officers junior to them. This is unjustified and the railway board should pay attention to our demand," Kumar said.