Against the privatization of nationalized banks, under the aegis of United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), a two-day strike of the nationalized bank started from Thursday at all the branches of the banks across the State. Due to this, banking activity has been badly affected and people faced a lot of problems due to the strike of banks.
QUFBU main Convener ML Singh said that the main reason for going on this strike is the proposal of the Central Government to amend the Banking Act 1970 and 1980 and the Banking Regulation Act 1949, in which there is a proposal to privatize public sector banks in this winter Parliament session.
This two-day strike has also been supported by the Central Labor Organizations and United Farmers Front, apart from this, more than 200 federations of the Country have also fully supported it because it is an anti-people, anti-labour and anti-National step of the Central Government, he added.
From this morning, employees and officers demonstrated in front of the branches and administrative offices, women workers also played an important role in today's strike. The employees of Ranchi based State Bank of India, Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Indian Bank, Union Bank of India, Central Bank of India, Canara Bank, UCO Bank, Indian Overseas Bank and Jharkhand Rajya Gramin Bank protested fiercely in front of the administrative office of Ranchi.
There was sloganeering and apart from this, employees and officers participated in large numbers in front of all the branches.
“Whereas in his last 51 years, the bank has done collective development of the Country whether agriculture, health, education, small and medium industries, priority sector, big industries, besides all the schemes of the Government, Jan Dhan Yojana, Mudra loan scheme, KCC, Aadhar card, Growth and Widow Pension have taken more active participation than the private sector in all the schemes.
Not only this, whether it was during demonetisation or recently, during the pandemic of COVID-19, all the schemes of the Government were taken to the doorsteps. While the private sector role is negligible.
The conspiracy to privatize public sector banks by ignoring this role is nothing but an indirect help to the open corporate houses. While the failure of private sector banks during this period was common,” said Singh.