Over 13,000 Rly. employees on unauthorised absence for long

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New Delhi : On the directions of the Union Minister for Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal, Ministry of Railways has launched an exercise to improve performance of the organisationand to boost the morale of sincere and diligent employees.

A massive drive to identify long term absentees in various establishments of Railways has been initiated.  As a result of the said drive, Railways have detected more than 13,000  employees out of about 13 lakh employees who are on unauthorised absence for a long time. The establishment has initiated disciplinary action under the rules to terminate services of such absentees, according to a PIB release.

Railways have instructed all the officers and supervisors to weed out these employees from the employees’ rolls after following due process.