Ujerumani Kusaidia Kukarabati Reli ya Kati

Waziri wa Mambo ya Nchi za Nje na Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa, Mhe Bernard Membe na mgeni wake Waziri wa Mambo ya Nje wa Ujerumani nchini, Dkt Frank-Walter Steinmeier wakiwasili kwenye chumba cha mkutano kuzungumza na waandishi wa habari leo jijini Dar.(Picha na Zainul Mzige wa MObog).

Na Damas Makangale, MOblog Tanzania

SERIKALI ya Ujerumani kwa kushirikiana na Serikali ya Tanzania imeahidi kutumia zaidi ya Euro milioni 10 kukarabati reli ya kati (Central Line Railway). MOblog inaripoti.

Akizungumza na waandishi wa habari baada ya kuwasili kwa Waziri wa Mambo ya Nje wa Ujerumani nchini, Dkt Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Waziri wa Mambo ya Nchi za Nje na Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa, Mhe Bernard Membe amesema serikali ya Ujerumani imekubali kwa dhati kabisa kukarabati reli ya kati kwa manufaa ya Tanzania na nchi jirani.

“kwa sasa siwezi kusema ukarabati utaanza lini na jina la mwekezaji kwa sababu mazungumzo yanaendelea lakini kwa hakika kabisa tumeshakubaliana kwenye jambo la ukarabati wa reli ya kati,” amesema Waziri Membe

Amesema reli ya kati itapunguza matumizi ya barabara kwa mizigo na barabara za nchi zitakuwa salama na kuongeza tija katika Nyanja za biashara kupitia soko la pamoja Afrika Mashariki na kati.

Waziri wa Mambo ya Nje wa Ujerumani, Dkt. Frank Steinmeier akizungumza waandishi wa habari kwenye mkutano huo jijini Dar es Salaam na kuelezea mafanikio ya ushirikiano wa nchi hizo mbili.

Membe alilisisitiza kwamba ziara ya Waziri mpya wa mambo ya nje kutoka Ujerumani ina manufaa makubwa kwa Tanzania kwa sababu amekuja na wawekezaji 65 kutoka maeneo mbalimbali.

Amesema kuwa ukarabati wa reli ya kati ni muhimu katika kudumisha ushirikiano wa kiuchumi na kijamii kati ya nchi hizo mbili kwa maslahi ya watu wao.

“reli ya kati kama mnavyojua ilijengwa na Wajerumani mwaka 1913 na kwa sasa ina miaka karibu mia moja na kitu,” aliongeza Waziri Membe

Kwa upande wake, Waziri wa Mambo ya Nje wa Ujerumani, Dkt. Steinmeier amesema kuwa nchi yake itaendelea kudumisha ushirikiano wa kiuchumi na kijamii na Tanzania katika jitihada za kuharakisha maendeleo ya nchi na watu wake.

Amesema kuwa serikali ya Ujerumani imeamua kukarabati reli ya kati katika jitihada za kukumbuka na kudumisha historia ya muda mrefu kati ya nchi hizo mbili.

“najisikia furaha na faraja kuona nchi yaTanzania inapiga hatua mbele kimaendeleo baada ya uhuru wake,” amesema

Waziri wa Mambo ya Nchi za Nje na Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa, Mh. Bernard Membe akizungumza na waandishi wa habari kuhusu ushirikiano wa kihistoria na kiuchumi kati ya Tanzania na Ujerumani jijini Dar es Salaam.

Baadhi ya wageni waalikwa na maafisa kutoka Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje na Ubalozi wa Ujerumani nchini.

Sehemu ya waandishi wa habari nchini pamoja na waandishi kutoka nje ya nchi waliohudhuria mkutano huo leo jijini Dar.

Mwandishi wa gazeti la Tanzania Daima akiuliza swali wakati wa mkutano huo.

Waziri Membe na mgeni wake wakiondoka kwenye chumba cha mkutano kuelekea Ikulu kuonana na Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete.

Wafanyakazi wa Reli bado Kulipwa Mishahara

Hivi jamani, nauli wanaotoza abiria inakwenda wapi? Hela ya kubeba mizigo inaenda wapi? Siewlewi kwa nini wanasema wanashindwa kulipa wafanyakazi mishahara yao. Nina uhakika hao mabosi wanalipwa mishahara wao.

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Kutoka ippmedia.com

TRL strike now countrywide
By Guardian team
3rd December 2009

The central line cargo and passenger transportation system was paralyzed yesterday after workers of the Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL) downed tools over delay of last month’s salaries.

Due to the boycott, hundreds of passengers have been stranded at the Dar es Salaam central and other stations, with reports saying that a passenger train en-route got stuck at stations near Manyoni.

Tanzania Railway Workers Union (Trawu) secretary-general Sylvester Rwegasira confirmed reports of the strike, saying it was aimed at putting pressure on the defiant TRL management to pay their salaries for November.

In a move which deepens the management crisis, enraged workers of the cash-troubled TRL yesterday morning stormed the company’s headquarters along Sokoine Drive in the city in attempts to force the foreign and other senior management staff out of their offices.

However a police squad, led by the Railway Police Commander, Ruth Makeremo, who led armed police deployment at the offices, saved the day for the management by stopping the workers who had already arrived at the offices.

The workers had gathered at the central station in Dar es Salaam at around 11 in the morning for a briefing on the payment of their salaries. When they were told that there was no money, a large group of them decided to storm the offices to force the management out.

According to Rwegasira, the message about the defiant position of the management was shared among all workers across the country and the strike became effective immediately.

Shortly after the briefing, a group of workers, who carried placards castigating their management, moved to the TRL headquarters where the MD and his team were forced to pack and leave immediately. But police arrived to stop the workers.

The Railway Police chief Makeremo said there was no assurance of security for the management to leave in peace, that is why the exercise was suspended. Additionally, she said she had not been informed by respective government authorities about the move.

On Tuesday, the workers stormed offices of their management and deflated tyres of vehicles of the company’s senior staff over the same claims. Due to the chaos, hundreds of passengers who were destined for upcountry regions from Dar es Salaam were stranded after workers on duty to take the train to Mwanza and Kigoma via Morogoro, Dodoma and Tabora refused to work.

Cars whose tyres were deflated included that of the TRL managing director Hundi-Lal Chaudhary, a Prado bearing registration number T405 AVL. Other cars were T760 AWG, T898 AZX, T523 AVA, T814 AUV and T925 AWG.

Reacting to the workers claims, the TRL managing director Hundi-Lal Chaudhary maintained that his management can’t raise 1.6bn/- needed to settle November salaries for the workers.

Infrastructure Development ministry permanent secretary Omar Chambo had said earlier this week that the government had already disbursed 522m/- as part of the November salaries for the workers, which is part of its contribution to help the TRL end the problem.

In mid October this year, the TRL workers staged an eight-hour stand-off to end an administration and Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (Sumatra) planned test of locomotives and coaches. The workers claimed that carriages were defective and unworthy to carry passengers.

The workers were pressing for two basic demands; refusal to have 25 passenger coaches and 23 diesel power engines tested all the way to Dodoma, citing safety reasons and the immediate payment of their arrears.

TRL has been experiencing incidents of chaos and strikes by workers since the new management under the Indian firm, RITES, took over operations of the central railway line some three years ago.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

Wafanyakazi wa Reli Wagoma baada ya Kutokulipwa Mishahara!

Hivi hao wahindi waliochukua reli wanapata shida gani kulipa wafanyakazi? Ina maana huduma zote za reli ikiwemo meli za TRL zimesimama pia? Je, huduma ya reli imekuwa bora zaidi tangu wahindi waichukue?

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Tanzanian Rail Workers Strike After Salaries Aren’t Paid

By John Ngahyoma

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Workers at Tanzania Railways Ltd. operated by India’s Rites Ltd. have started a strike after they weren’t paid their salaries, according to a labor union. Railway Workers Union. Workers demonstrated outside the company’s offices in Dar es Salaam,

Talks will are being held today with Omar Chambo, the permanent secretary in the ministry of infrastructure development, according to Silvester Rwegasira, general secretary of the Tanzania the country’s commercial capital.

The government owns a 49 percent stake in the company, which connects Kigoma at the border with Rwanda in the north west with Dar es Salaam on the coast in the east, while Rites owns the rest.

Rites, which is owned by the Indian government, has submitted a letter to the government saying that it may withdraw from the company, Rwegasira said. Calls to Rites’s offices in Tanzania at numbers provided on the company’s Web site did not connect. Calls to the company’s offices in Haryana, India outside of normal office hours weren’t answered.

Rites won a 25-year concession for the railway in 2007 in return for $120 million in pledged investment.

To contact the reporter on this story: John Ngahyoma in Dar es Salaam via Johannesburg at 1934 or asguazzin@bloomberg.net.

Kituo cha Reli ya Kati - Tabora

Wadau, mliosoma Tabora, mnakumbuka hii kituo cha Reli? Bado iko vilevile haijabadilika! Mnakumbuka usafiri wa CENTRAL LINE?
Picha kutoka: http://www.5cense.com/EA/Tanz_cent.htm