A section of officials and employees of the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited on Thursday withdrew a pre-scheduled strike to stop metro rail services from today for independent service rules.
The decision about the withdrawal came after the company鈥檚 newly appointed managing director, Faruque Ahmed, took 30 working days till March 22 to finalise the draft rules.
Earlier the officials and employees, under the banner of 鈥楧MTCL permanent officers-employees recruited through direct open recruitment鈥� have given three working days from February 18 to Thursday to the authorities concerned to accept their demand.
The company had already drafted the rules and uploaded those on its website on February 16 for taking opinions.
Faruque Ahmed told 抖阴精品 on Thursday that the pre-scheduled strike was withdrawn by the company staff who had announced it.
His personal secretary, also a deputy secretary, Md Zaidul Islam said that the protesting staff had mainly asked for a fixed date for finalisation of the draft rules.
As it would take more time for procedures to finalise, the 30 working days were taken to complete the work, he continued.
Zahid also said that about 200 to 300 staff members were present when discussion between managing director and some other senior officials was held at about 2:45pm on Thursday.
The officials and employees, under the banner of 鈥楧MTCL permanent officers-employees recruited through direct open recruitment鈥�, in a press release issued on Thursday said that they had withdrawn their strike showing respect to the Language martyrs and the newly appointed managing director.聽聽聽
A press release, issued by the protesters on February 17, read that the interim government鈥檚 adviser to the road transport and bridges ministry, Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, gave a directive to DMTCL to formulate independent service rules on September 12, 2024.
It also said that the rules were not formulated even after five months and due to the lack of rules about 200 officials and employees had already left the company.
According to the DMTCL, currently it has a total of 900 directly recruited workforces from the ninth to 16th grades and 630 workforces from outsourcing.
In its under-implementation projects the company has a total of 142 directly recruited workforces and 134 from outsourcing.
Earlier, about 700 DMTCL employees from Grade-10 to Grade-20 observed an all-out work abstention between August 6 to August 19, demanding an end to injustice and discrimination in their jobs, including upgradation of their pay scales.
The authorities had closed down metro rail services since July 20 past year amid student protests and took a decision to resume the services from August 17.
Later, the authorities backtracked on the decision while the insiders said that the decision was cancelled following the strike of the employees.
Later, the government resumed the services on August 25.