New Delhi, Sep 23 (PTI) The All India Railway Track Maintainers Union (AIRTU) has written to the Railway Board, alleging that safety norms are being violated in the Dhanbad division with the deployment of medically-unfit workers to work under harsh conditions.

Citing the case of a trackman, Praveen Kumar, the union said he is currently working in the Kodarma section of the division, where railway doctors have declared him medically unfit for stressful duties. However, senior officials are endangering Kumar’s life by forcing him to do physically-demanding work.

“Permanent Way Inspectors (PWIs) are disregarding all railway norms. Despite the union’s request to place the said trackman in a unit where he would be given lighter work, Kumar is being deliberately put to harsh work and his healt

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