The Regional Council of United Bank Officers’ Association (UBOA), the biggest association of employees of the bank, held its sixth triennial conference here on Sunday. The UBOA is affiliated to the AIBOC comprising more than 2.82 lakh officers in the banking sector.
The meeting was addressed by Revenue Divisional Commissioner (Central) Odisha Akhila Bihari Ota, the bank’s Deputy General Manager and Chief Regional Manager (Bhubaneswar Region) Mukti Ranjan Ray and Chief Regional Manager (Sambalpur Region) Tapan Kumar Patra, UBOA general secretary Kaushik Ghosh and regional secretary Bijaya Kumar Mishra and convenor of the meeting Madan Mohan Mahakud.
Discussions were held on various economic and financial issues being faced by the officers of the banking sector in general and the United Bank of India in particular like effects of post-demonetisation, non-repayment of loan dues by large corporates, rising volume of NPAs, the Government’s direction to 10 banks for signing MoU without any roadmap, revision of the bipartite settlement with the IBA expiring on October 31, 2017, etc.
More than 200 officers of the Bhubaneswar Region and members from other banks of the affiliate attended the meeting. Arabind Satpathy presided over the meeting and Brajabandhu Pati offered a vote of thanks.