SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, April 3: Bank employees of state would hold a dharna at New Delhi Jantar Manter on Tuesday and participate in the Mazdoor –Kisan rally on April 5 in support of their 7 points charter of demands.
Jharkhand Bank Employees Federation (JBEF) general secretary ML Singh said All Indian Bank Employees Federation has called nationwide dharna on April 4 and a rally on April 5 in New Delhi. The bank employees of Jharkhand in large numbers would participate in these programmes in support of demands.
The main demands of bank federation are recruitment on vacant posts, regularization of job of casual, temporary staff, implementation of Old Pension Scheme(OPS) and abolition of existing new pension scheme, improvement in customers service, safety of Reserve Bank of India rights and strengthening infrastructure of financial institutions.
“ Besides implementation of demands, we are also opposing privatization of banks, outsourcing, interference in cooperative banking area and IPO in Regional Rural Bank,” said JBEF general secretary ML Singh.
The Federation official charged that profit in Indian banking area is continuously increasing from deposits, bank loan interest but employees’ strength is receding day by day. As a result, employees are forced to work more than scheduled hour under pressure. “Due to shortage of hands in banks even customer service is affected,”, said Singh.
Bank management rather appointing regular staff on vacant posts, taking services of outsourcing staff to get work done. Federation leader said that for last 30 years pension upgradation of employees is pending. All these factors have compelled the employees to go on agitation pathe.
