New Delhi, July 10 -- Railway engineers have raised their grievances with the 8th Pay Commission at the recently held meeting in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. They urged the 8th Pay Commission to take cognisance of and address long-standing grievances regarding pay parity, career satisfaction, job growth and promotion opportunities during the stakeholder discussions.

These demands were presented by the All India Railway Engineers Federation (AIREF) and the East Coast Railway Engineers Association (ECoREA) before the 8th Pay Commission's Member Secretary, Pankaj Jain, according to a report in The New Indian Express.

According to the AIREF Secretary General, BP Dash, the payment structure for railway engineers has not been sufficient to help them ...