Station masters put off hunger stir
The Hindu
Association to wait for the outcome of talks with management
Railway station masters have postponed a hunger strike they planned to begin from December 10 midnight demanding easing of their work pressure.
All India Station Masters Association general secretary E.K. Babu said here on Thursday that the strike was put off in the wake of the talks being held between the association leaders and the Railway management in the presence of the Regional Labour Commissioner, Chennai.
Mr. Babu said that hundreds of station masters in the Southern Railway would go ahead with the agitation if the talks failed.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.