SR shunts out reservation clerks, TTEs en masse

Numbering over 60, the list of transferred personnel also includes a few chief ticketing inspectors and commercial supervisors who have been holding the same office for years together, in some cases even over a decade at MMC. A bulk of the transfers have  happened at booking and ticket reservation offices and parcel and luggage offices in Chennai Central and Egmore stations plus a few key suburban stations like Beach, Mambalam, Perambur, Tambaram and Chengalpattu. 

While a good number of personnel have been subjected to periodical transfer, quite a few administrative transfers have been ordered owing to non-performance. Pertinently, the chief reservation supervisors and reservation supervisors of both MMC (Moore Market complex) and MAS (Chennai Central), where the ticket booking scam was unearthed by DT Next earlier, had been shunted out. 

Issued by divisional personnel officer A Immanuel on November 11, 2016 the order has instructed supervisors of respective offices to immediately relieve the staff named in it. “Salary of the under mentioned employees from the ensuing month will be claimed at the station/ sleeper depots to which they are posted,” the order read, apparently, instructing the supervisors not to engage the transferred staff at present stations, as they had done in the past.

Old order issued to prevent ‘influential’ staff: Senior SR officers in the know of things pointed to a portion of the order warning supervisors to accept responsibility if musters from erstwhile station/sleeper/ squads are entertained under any circumstance, said last week’s order, which is based on an April 2016 order, has been urgently notified to stave off a few staff, who hold high offices in trade unions, from being transferred to far off stations within the division. SR officers requesting anonymity revealed that a little over a month back the commercial department had recommended the transfer of several personnel, whose names also featured in last week’s order.