Unconcerned, Casual and Callous Attitude alleged

Central Bank Employees Criticized Bank Management 

Ludhiana: 17th October 2017: (Punjab Screen Bureau)::

The employees and officers of Central Bank of India in large number staged a demonstration against the management to press for their long outstanding demands. This was held in front of the Regional Office of the bank situated at Ferozepur road Ludhiana. Their demands include immediate appointment of the wards of the members who died in harness which are about 200 in number and  lingering for the last two years. The second major demand is recruitment of  all the officers  and clerks allocated  by IBPS. This demonstration is part of the all india agitation call given by All India Central Bank Employees Federation and All India Central Bank Officers Association. Speakers told that the compassionate appointment scheme has been reintroduced in the banks from 5th August 2014 after a long persuation by our apex body AIBEA. Only 7 or 8 substaff members have been given appointment, whereas around 200 appointments are kept pending  for the last more than 2 years. Similarly recently IBPS has allocated around 1860 single window operators, around 500 AFO’s and around 300 PO’s  at the request of Central Bank Management. Bank has preferred to appoint very less number of employees and officers contrary to the need of the branches, leaving the majority of the vacancies unfilled. The leaders criticized the unconcerned attitude of the central office management towards the family meembers of the deceased employees. They declared that if the demands are not fulfilled then there will be one day strike on 7th December 2017. The leaders who addressed included Com. Rajesh Verma-- President, Com. M S Bhatia- Regional Secretary of Central Bank Of India Employees Union ( North Zone) and Com. Gurmeet Singh- Deputy General Secretary and Com. Sunil Grover- Regional Secretary, Central Bank Officers Union( Chd. Zone). The unions are affiliated to AIBEA and AIBOA.

Halt retrograde Banking Sector reforms

Bank employees held a massive demonstration Main protest organized in front of  Canara Bank

Ludhiana: 29th July 2016: (Punjab Screen Bureau):

• Do not increase private capital in Public Sector Banks

• Do not encourage FDI in banking Sector

• Do not give license to corporates to start Banks

• Do not give license to private hands to open Small Banks and Payment Banks

• Do not consolidate and merge Banks

• Extend more credit to agriculture sector

• Recover bad loans through stringent measures

• Increase interest rate on deposits in Banks

On the call given by United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), one million bank Workmen and Officers are observing country wide Strike TODAY agianst so called banking reforms by the Government. As per decision, United Forum of Bank Unions (Unit : Ludhiana) held a massive demonstration  in front of  Canara Bank, Bharat Nagar Chowk, Ludhiana.  Com. Naresh Gaur, Convener, United Forum of Bank Unions, Com. Pawan Thakur, President, Punjab Bank Employees Federation (Ludhiana Unit), Com. Sanjay Sharma, Vice President, All India Bank Officers Confederation (AIBOC) and Dy. General Secretary, State Bank of India Officers Asociation, Ludhiana Zone, Com. J.P.Kalra, President State Bank of India Officers Association, Com. Iqbal Singh, Asstt. General Secretary, State Bank of India Staff Association, Com. D P Maur, General Secretary, Joint Council of Trade Unions  addressed the bank employees.  Com. Ashok Malhan, Com. Rajesh Verma, Vice Presidents, Pb. Bank Employees Federation and Com. Parveen Moudgil, Convener, Women Cell, Pb. Bank Employees Federation were also present.    

While addressing the bank employees, Com. Naresh Gaur said that all of us are aware about the various attempts of the Government to push through banking reform measures in one way or the other.  The basic idea is to dilute and dismantle public sector banking and boost up private sector banking. We have been consistently fighting against such machinations.  We have been able to build up intensive campaigns, agitations, struggles and strike actions against all these measures.  We can also legitimately feel proud that due to all these persistent efforts, the speed with which these reform measures were proposed to be implemented, could not be of such dimension as planned. But we know that the Government is on their heels to somehow get their agenda implemented.

The Government has also announced their proposals for

merger of PSBs.  Already RBI has announced its scheme for granting licenses to corporates and industrial houses. Further RBI has announced their Guidelines on setting up of Small Private Banks and Payment Banks.  Thus there is a concerted attempt to hand over our banking sector more and more to private hands. We are already aware of the Government’s continuous attempts to push through their reforms agenda aimed at privatisation of banks, consolidation and merger of Banks, etc.  More and more private capital and FDI are being encouraged.  Regional Rural Banks are sought to be privatised and the Bill has been passed by the Government in the Parliament despite protests by our Unions. Primary Agricultural Co-operative Societies (PACs) are under threat of winding up. Urban Co-operative Banks are under threat of delicensing. Private sector executives are imposed on the public sector banks.  All the Government schemes are being imposed on the Banks without proper infrastructure and manpower resulting harassment and problems faced by the bank staff.  Bank officers are being denied regulated working hours. Permanent and regular jobs are being outsourced on contract basis and contract employees are being exploited. Government would like to proceed on its agenda to amend the labour laws without any proper consultation with the trade unions. In the name of banking sector reforms, the attempt is to privatise the Banks and hand them over to the private corporates to enable them to further loot the precious savings of the people. Already our Banks are bleeding due to alarming increase in bad loans, thanks to the deliberate default by the corporates and big business enterprises. Instead of taking tough measures to book the culprits and recover the loans, efforts are taken to hand over the banks to very same defaulters. It is very clear that all their talks of banking reforms and proposals of merger and consolidation are only a ploy and game plan to divert the attention of the people from the massive bad loans in the Banks. Our country needs strong public sector banks and not necessarily big banks or global-sized banks. Our country needs banking expansion and not consolidation of banks and shrinkage of banking services to people. The focus should be the alarming increase in bad loans to the tune of about Rs. 13 lac crore. The efforts should be to recover the money by taking stringent measures and not hush it up through provisions, write-offs, CDRs and SDRs. 

If the loans have been sanctioned wrongly, action should be taken on the concerned Executives.  If the borrower has cheated the Banks, criminal action should be taken against the defaulter. Providing for the bad loans, clean-up of Balance Sheet and making the Banks to incur the losses is not the solution to the problem.  It is obvious, all these are only diversionary tactics to escape from the accountability for the huge bad loans.  Kingfisher Mallya is only the tip of the iceberg.  There are many more sharks in the ocean of bad loans in the Banks.  Why the list of defaulters is not being published by them?  Why criminal action is not taken on the willful corporate defaulters?  Why all velvet treatment to them?  Why the attempt to convert the bad loans as equity investment in these defaulter companies?  Is it the corporate governance and good governance policy of the Government?  In IDBI Bank, 10 years ago, about Rs.9000 crores of bad loans were taken out of their books.  Now another Rs. 19,000 crores is the bad loan.  Instead taking action to recover these bad loans, the Government wants to privatise and sell the Bank to the very same private sector which is responsible for these huge loan default in IDBI Bank.

Joint call to observe All India Bank Strike on 2nd Sept. 2015

* March on to National Protest Strike on 2nd September, 2015            

* Oppose anti-worker Labour Reforms.

* Oppose anti-people Banking Reforms.

* Make the Strike a success in all Banks.

Ludhiana: 27 August 2015: (Punjab Screen Bureau):

All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), AIBOA, BEFI, INBOC, NOBW, INBEF AND NOBO has given joint call to observe All India Strike on 2nd Sept. 2015 against anti-people Economic Reforms and anti-worker Labour Reforms of the Central Government. More than 100 million workers from all over the country and belonging to all Central Trade Unions and in all sectors will be joining the Strike. It is going to be a most powerful protest and massive disapproval of the retrograde economic and labour policies of the present NDA Government.   

DEMANDING

*STOP ANTI-WORKER LABOUR REFORMS

* STOP ANTI-PEOPLE BANKING REFORMS

* STOP LOOT OF PEOPLE’S MONEY BY CORPORATE LOAN DEFAULTERS

* DECLARE WILLFUL DEFAULT OF BANK LOANS AS CRIMINAL OFFENNCE

* STOP OUTSOURCING OF BANK JOBS

All of us are fully aware of the increasing attacks on the workers and trade unions on their rights and privileges and the encouragement and concessions being extended to the employers in our country.  There are open attempts to amend the various labour laws in favour of the employers and to the detriment of the workers.  The neo-liberal economic policies are only aggravating the problems of the workers and common masses. Banking industry is no exception.  In the Banking industry, we are already aware of the Government’s continuous attempts to push through their reforms agenda aimed at privatisation of banks, consolidation and merger of Banks, etc.  More and more private capital and FDI are being encouraged.  Regional Rural Banks are sought to be privatised and the Bill has been passed by the Government in the Parliament despite protests by our Unions. Primary Agricultural Co-operative Societies (PACs) are under threat of winding up. Urban Co-operative Banks are under threat of delicensing. Private sector executives are imposed on the public sector banks.  All the Government schemes are being imposed on the Banks without proper infrastructure and manpower resulting harassment and problems faced by the bank staff.  Bank officers are being denied regulated working hours.    Permanent and regular jobs are being outsourced on contract basis and contract employees are being exploited. Government would like to proceed on its agenda to amend the labour laws without any proper consultation with the trade unions.

Hence it is necessary and imperative to join the general trade union movement and register our protest against these anti-worker policies of the Government.

(Naresh Gaur)

Secretary

 PUNJAB BANK EMPLOYEES FEDERATION WILL

HOLD A DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF 

  CANARA BANK, BHARAT NAGAR CHOWK,

LUDHIANA ON STRIKE DAY i.e. 2ND SEPT.2015 

`Customer Meet' by SBP for Himachal

Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:08 AM

Bank has 130 branches serving in Himachal Pradesh

Ludhiana: 28 April 2015: (Punjab Screen Bureau):

On 25^th April 2015, State Bank of Patiala organised  `Customer Meet' for  Kangra, Hamirpur and Una Districts customers in Hotel Conifer at Dharamshala which was addressed by Sh. S.A.Ramesh Rangan, Managing Director. Sh. Rangan briefed the customers about Bank's various attractive Deposit and Loan schemes, activities and developments of the Bank.  He told that Bank is regularly developing and progressing.  Bank has 130 branches serving in Himachal Pradesh and is planning  to open more branches in future.  He thanked the customers for their cooperation and support in the regular development of the Bank.

Bank's aim is not only to open the branches and earn profit but also to  extend the banking facilities to each and every home. Our motive is not only to provide banking facilties in cities and towns but also to provide banking facilities to each and every person in rural area. State Bank of Patiala aims to open account of each person in every home.  We always try to provide best customer service and in future also we will be trying it regularly.  We welcome any suggestion given by you to improve our working.    

Free Eye Check Up Camp series by SBP

Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:06 AM

Third Camp on Wednesday at Dugri Road Ldh

Ludhiana: 28 April 2015: (Punjab Screen Bureau):

State Bank of Patiala organised Free Eye Check Up Camp at Ludhiana in collaboration with VISION SANKARA for four days. The Eye Camp was inaugurated by Shri Rajeev K. Sharma, Deputy General Manager, State Bank of Patiala, Ludhiana Zone today at Civil Lines, Opp. Old Dayanand Hospital, Ludhiana. Sh. Sharma said that such camp will be organised at four different

branches of State Bank of Patiala in the City of Ludhiana on four different days. The Second Camp on 28'h April 2015 at Haibowal, Adjoining Toor Hospital, Third Camp on29'h April 2015 at Dugri Road Branch and Fourth Camp on 30'h April 2015 at Pakhowal Road Br. Passi Chowk, Ludhiana, will be organised. Mr. Sharma further said that State Bank of Patiala is continuously trying to serve the society and its motive is not only to open the branches and earn profit. 

In today's life style, it is very necessary to be conscious about our health. Eyes are very important part of our body. A person who is not able to see only knows its importance. So, we should get our eyes regularly checked up. On various occasions, State Bank of Patiala is organising such types of programmes and in future also these will be organised regularly.

On this occasion, Sh. Sharma briefed about many attractive deposit and loan schemes launched by the Bank in people's interest. The Bank is developing in all spheres and is planning to expand further in future. We will welcome any suggestion from you to improve the working of the Bank.

Sh. Sharma thanked all for their cooperation and support for the development of the Bank.