DLW employees call off agitation

        Employees of the Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) here today ended their four-day-long strike against the outsourcing of the locomotive parts to private companies bringing the entire machinery to a standstill.


       The agitating employees decided to call off their strike after talks with the chief mechanical engineer of the company Niraj Kumar.

       He assured the employees that DLW administration would consider the demand of withdrawing action initiated against them, including suspension of seven workers and lodging of FIR against 107 workers.

       Kumar said due to the target of manufacturing 250 locomotives in the current financial year, the DLW management was compelled to import the loco parts from other companies.

        But, in the near future, the process would be initiated to expand workshop on the land available at Bhullanpur to end dependency of DLW on other companies for loco parts, he said.