Assam Times: Railway seeks security, says militants targeting projects

Railway seeks security, says militants targeting projects
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Editor on 14 May, 2008 09:36:00
 
The Railways have taken Assam's volatile law and order issue with the Union Home
Ministry and seek adequate security for its employees. According to information,
the ministry has written a letter written to Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta, and
expressed grave concern over the militant threat to the railway projects and
the recruits.
Work on the crucial Lumding-Silchar gauge conversion project in Assam is forced
to remain disrupted  due to reports on attack. The work has been disrupted at
all the sites following insurgent attacks in a number of projects.  Two workers
were killed and another injured when the militants opened fire on a labour camp
site near Migrandisa railway station in Assam on Monday.
Notably, the attack came a day after eight workers employed by a contractor in
the Lumding project in Assam were killed by militants on Sunday. On Saturday
last, militants opened indiscriminate firing in Wadrengdisa, also in Assam. A
railway engineer involved in Kumarghat-Agartala new line project in Tripura was
kidnapped and a contractor's staff was killed by militants on April 26.