The BMS-affiliated Utkal Grameen Bank Officers and Employees Association held its second joint general body meeting here on Monday.
All India Grameen Bank Karmachari Sangh general secretary Saroj Pradhan attended as chief guest and analysed the various issues of the Grameen Bank. He discussed about the employees post retirement benefits and pension etc.
Nikhila Odisha Grameen Bank Officers and Workers Sangha president lingaraj Sahu and general secretary RP Mohini discussed on formation of Rashtriya Grameen Bank and employments under rehabilitation scheme in the bank.
Utkal Grameen Bank Officers’ Sangh secretary Kamal lochan Purohit said that due to the faulty economic policy of the Governments at the Centre and the State, chit fund firms are mushrooming and looting the investors of crores of rupees. He said while black marketers and unscrupulous businessmen are thriving due to political patronage, they are looting the common people. Purohit also cited about Vijaya Malya who swindled the country’s people of Rs9,000 crore.
Retired bank officials Ramanath Panda, K Bhima Rao, Naveen Sahu, Nirmalendu Patnaik, Prasant Bahinipati, Jagadish Panigrahi and Bharat Rout were felicitated.
Kamallochan Purohit was nominated as the president and Rabindra Panigrahi as secretary of the officers’association, while Ganesh Patro and Baidyanath Pradhan were nominated president and secretary respectively of the workers’ association.