ES Reporter

ITANAGAR, Feb 1: Banking services of the public sector banks in the state capital suffered heavily due to the two-day nationwide strike called by the bank employees’ unions demanding a wage revision.
Over 10 lakh employees of the public sector banks all over the country under the umbrella body of bank unions ‘United Forum of Bank Unions’ observed the two-day strike on January 31 & February 1. More than nine bank unions are participating in the strike. 
Speaking to the media, Manager FIBC (SBI) Nikhilesh Kr Mishra stated that information related to the strike had been issued 15 days prior to the strike to the authority as per rules. “Unions will also organize a similar strike on March 11-13 next if the government fails to address our issues and we may go for an indefinite strike from April next,” he added. “Our objective is not to disrupt the banking system or create trouble for the public, but we are fighting for our rights and that too under the ambit of prescribed norms,” asserted the Manager. Since 2017, wage settlement of bank employees are still pending and neither the government nor the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) are listening  to us and so we are compelled to resort to democratic movement, lamented Nikhilesh.
The bank unions are sticking to a host of demands that include  a series wage revision settlement at 20% hike on payslip components with adequate loading thereof, five-day banking, merger of special allowances with basic pay, scrapping of the new pension scheme, revision of pension, improvement in family pension, allocation to staff welfare fund based on operating profits,  exemption from income tax on retails benefits without ceiling, uniform definition of business hours, lunch hours in branches,  introduction of leave bank, defined working hours for officers and equal wage-equal work for contract employees/business correspondents.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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