"The protest had been organised under the banner of All India Railway Engineers Federation (AIREF) at all zonal and divisional offices in country and a memorandum addressed to the Railway Minister and the Railway Board Chairman was submitted," the national organisation secretary of AIREF V K Badgaiya told PTI.
The engineers are upset over the seventh pay commission, which did not grant them group B status despite a notification by the Department of Personnel and Training that Railway JEs and SSEs be treated at par with their counterparts in other Central government departments.