With a view to redress grievances of the Staff and to listen to various suggestions for the
improvement of Railways, Salem Division, Southern Railway, is conducting Staff
Interactive Meetings called PNM (Permanent Negotiating Machinery) periodically,
with the recognized trade union.
The PNM for the year 2017 was conducted for 2 days
un-intermittently with the representatives of the recognized Labour Union viz Southern
Railway Masdoor Union (SRMU) headed by Sri M. Govindran, Divisional Secretary,
SRMU, by the Salem Division administration under the chairmanship of Sri Hari
Shankar Verma, DRM, Salem. The meeting
started at 11.00 hrs. on 28.12.2017 (Thursday) and was completed at 14,30 hrs.
on 29.12.2017 (Friday), with small intervals in between. In this marathon
meetings totally, 420 demands were placed. Major demands included upgradation
of Salem Health Unit as Sub Divisional Hospital, Kendriya Vidyalaya at Salem,
provision of park at Railway Colonies, construction of new railway quarters,
duly demolishing the condemned ones, LED lights for all the houses in Railway
Colonies, ensuring RO water supply in all offices and stations, Lady Staff
Dress Changing Room wherever not available, etc. DRM gave on the spot orders for about 412
cases that were within his jurisdictional
powers. For about 8 cases, he advised the Divisional Secretary, SRMU, to
approach Southern Railway Head Quarters for action, since they were policy
matters to be decided at a higher level. Staff representatives expressed their
happiness on getting solution to almost
all of their demands.
The meeting was attended by the other office
bearers and members of SRMU, Sri Chandrapal, ADRM, Sri Perumal Nandalal, Sr.
Divisional Engineer, Dr. S. Uma Maheswari, Sr. Divisional Finance Manager, Sri
A. Vijuvin, Sr. Divisional Commercial Manager, Sri M. Prabhakaran, Sr.
Divisional Electrical Engineer, Sr. S. Naseer Ahamed, Sr. Divisional Electrical
Engineer, Sri. S. Thirumurugan, Divisional Personnel Officer, and other Salem
Division officials.