No.AIRF/174
Dated: July 26, 2019
Hon’ble
Minister for Railways,
Ministry
of Railways, Rail Bhawan,
New Delhi
Respected
Sir,
Sub.: Closure
of Railway Printing Presses – Regarding
Ref.: Railway
Board’s letter No.2018/RS/Ptg. & Sty./AP/PP/IR dated 04.06.2019
The issue of closure of Railway
Printing Presses, being burning one, has been repeatedly deliberated by AIRF at
various levels during the last two years. After detailed discussions, including
deliberations held in the PNM Meeting of AIRF with the Railway Board on our
captioned agenda item(item No.35/2018), it was assured that the following five Railway Printing Presses would not
only continue to function, but also be modernized by providing latest printing
machinery and plant.
(i)
Byculla(CR), (ii) Howrah(ER), (iii) Shakurbasti(NR), (iv) Royapuram(Chennai)
and (v) Secunderabad(SCR)
It
was also advised to this federation that the workload of those printing
presses, other than the above-mentioned five, which are to be closed, would
also be transferred to these printing presses. It may also be noted that,
Ministry of Railways has spent substantial money with a view to modernize the
aforesaid five printing presses as was assured to this federation.
Previously, the undersigned had
also discussed this issue with your goodself and you also assured that, five printing presses would be allowed to
function with due modernization thereof to cater the
requirement of various money value and other items used in the Railways. To our
utter surprise, Railway Board had issued above referred to letter, vide which
it was communicated to close the remaining five printing presses which were to
continue functioning as per assurance given to this federation. You may also
appreciate that, the above orders have been issued in total disregard of your
personal assurance given to us on the subject. This action of the Railway Board
tantamounts to complete breach of negotiated settlement, and it is further
regretful that, your personal assurance, to continue five printing presses, quoted
above, has also not been honoured. This would definitely result in shaking of
trust and credibility of the Railway Administration, as the assurance, given at
the MR’s level, is also not honoured in the instant case.
We, therefore, request your
goodself to personally look into the matter, so that, the assurance given to
AIRF, to continue five
printing presses to function, is honoured and implemented.
With
Regards,
√Copy to: Chairman, Railway
Board, New Delhi – for necessary action please.
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