At the fifth national convention of the All India Union Bank Staff Federation and fourth meet of the Union Bank Employees Union Uttarakhand, the bank employees decided to unite in opposition to privatization of nationalized banks, other ‘detrimental’ measures and issues. The federation chief PK Chakravarti presided over the function which was inaugurated by Vinil Saksena, the national head of National Federation of Bank Employees at a hotel here in Dehradun on Sunday.
During the meeting the bank employees agreed to unite in opposition to the attempts being made to privatise nationalized banks, the ‘anti-bank’ recommendations of the Nayak Committee, delay in pay scale agreement and attempts to fill vacancies in banks from external sources. The bank employees also requested the NCBE national head and national office bearers to accord special attention during pay scale agreement to problems faced by bank employees posted in branches located in the remote rural areas in the Uttarakhand region. They also appealed the bank managers to facilitate implementation of the employees’ charter system in their administrative offices.
The NCBE national head KK Khosla was also present on the occasion while SD Mishra, Ml Soni, Sl Kannaujia, Til Prasad Sharma, GS Seta, Sanjay Telang, CV Kaple and others were appointed national office bearers of the federation.