Summary:
Since Friday, the protesting staff, wearing black bands, are gathering at Metro stations across Delhi-NCR and sloganeering against the management in between their shifts. New Delhi, July 22Delhi Metro’s non-executive staff on Saturday threatened to bring train services to a halt from Monday if their demands, including a pay hike, were not met. Delhi Metro had in 2015 agreed “in principle” to upgrade pay scale of maintainers from Rs 8,000-14,410 to Rs 10,170-Rs 18,700 from July of that year. Thereafter, from 0000 hours of July 24, the protesting staff of around 9,000 will enforce a total shutdown,” secretary of staff council Anil Kumar Mahato said. It was also decided to merge the pay scales Rs 13,500-Rs 25,520 and Rs 14,000-Rs 26,950..