Banking operations crippled due to strike
   Date :09-Jan-2020

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Members of different bank officials and employees associations, unions staging demonstration, during national general strike of banks on Wednesday. (Pic by Anil Tiwari)  
 
Staff Reporter :
 
Banking operations were badly hit during strike on Wednesday. Members of local units of All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), All India Bank Officers Association (AIBOA), Bank Employees Federation of India (BEFI), Indian National Bank Employees Federation (INBEF) and Indian National Bank Officers Congress (INBOC) attended the demonstration, dharna along with the support of various organisations of transporters, medical representatives, Anganwadi workers, porters and transporters.
 
According to press release issued by Madhya Pradesh Bank Employees Association, Assistant General Secretary, Santosh Gupta the strike has received support from various independent unions of insurance, medical representatives, Anganwadi workers, porters, transporters and employees of various other institutions. Around 25 crore labourers, employees and officials took part in the strike. Strike was staged pressing charter of demands of National Trade Union Convention highlighting issues like anti-workers’ Labour Law amendments, scrapping of New Pension Scheme, re-introduction of Defined Pension Scheme, unwarranted banking reforms and merger of Banks, stringent measures to be taken to recover bad loans from the corporate companies, expediting wage revision, 5 Day Banking, adequate recruitments in Banks, etc.
 
The representatives of different Unions in Jabalpur including MPBEA, Assistant General Secretary, Santosh Gupta, Madhya Pradesh Bank Officers Association’s Sanjay Khare have criticised the anti-public policies of the Union Government. Said that all the public sector banks should be re-structured but not the merged or integration should not be done. As already the banking service density is very low in India in comparison to other countries of the world. Rahul Sikarwar, Vishal Jai, L N Kapoor, H P Patel, Ranade, Jasveer Ahuja, Shanendra, Satish Saman, Raju Masram, Ankit Awasthi, Bank Employees Federation of India’s Prashant assembled at the Civic Centre Park and raised slogans of unity.