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Meet demands or face stir, AKDSU warns NFR

By Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, July 7 - Members of the All Kamrup District Students' Union (AKDSU) staged a three-hour demonstration in front of the NF Railway headquarters from 11 am today in support of their demands for delimitation of the NF Railway boundary by covering only the North-east region, creating a separate employment zone for the North-east States and absorption of cent per cent eligible job seekers from the region against the NF Railway's third and fourth grade jobs. They also registered their protest against the alleged deprivation of the job seekers from the North-east by the NF Railway authorities.

AKDSU has alleged in a statement issued here this evening that the Railways have been depriving eligible youths of the North-east region in matters of recruitment and business. It has been providing employment to the �outside the region� job seekers in covert manner.

The Governments in the State and at the Centre must demonstrate their eagerness to bring about a change in the age-old deprivation meted out to the people of the North-east region, the statement added.

The Union Minister of State for the Railways is elected from Assam and he should work for the greater interest of the indigenous people of this region, it said. AKDSU also threatened to intensify its agitation against the Railways in case their demands are not met at the earliest.

Cong demand: Meanwhile, the State Congress today demanded resignation of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Union Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain for their failure to ensure absorption of a single candidate from Assam by the NF Railway into the posts of workshop technicians. The NF Railway has absorbed 135 candidates from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand into same posts.

The APCC alleged that for the above-mentioned posts, a candidate is required to pass out from an ITI. But none of ITI-passed candidates of the State was recruited, it added.

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