JAIPUR: The employees union of the North Western Railway (NWR) protested on Wednesday against the privatisation of railways announced by Centre recently. The employees staged a protest simultaneously across 80 stations under NWR.
Mukesh Chaturvedi, president, employees union, NWR said, “Around 400 stations will be sold on PPP model in which there is a provision to sell 40 stations in 2021-22, 120 stations in 2022-23, 120 stations in 2023-24 and 120 stations in 2024-25 by the government. The target is to sell 90 trains to private parties in which the plan is to sell 30 trains in 2023, 30 in 2024, and 30 trains in 2025. Four to 1,400 km of track is also targeted to be handed over to private investors by 2023. The Centre has set a target of handing over 265 goods train to private investors. While they plan on earning thousands of crores, there is no benefit for the employees and in fact our job security is also threatened.”
