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28Th July 2016
Banking operations will be impacted across
the country on Friday with around 10 lakh bankers of 40 private and state-run
banks striking work in protest against the central government's banking
policies, a union leader said on Thursday.
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"The strike is on. We are not aware of
any case filed by the banks or the Indian Banks Association (IBA) to restrain
the nine unions of UFBU (United Forum of Bank Unions) from striking," C.H.
Venkatachalam, General Secretary of the All India Bank Employees Association
(AIBEA), told IANS.
Earlier this month, major bank unions
deferred a two-day strike call for July 12 and 13 following a restraint order
by the Delhi High Court.
The unions in the banking sector had given
the strike call protesting against the merger of the five associate banks of
the State Bank of India (SBI) with SBI and the privatisation of IDBI Bank.The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
The union is opposed to the government's
decision to merge the State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (SBBJ), State Bank of
Travancore (SBT), State Bank of Patiala (SBP), State Bank of Mysore (SBM) and
State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) with the SBI. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
"The strike will involve employees and
officers of public sector banks, old generation private banks and foreign banks
with a total of more than 80,000 branches," he said.
According to him, the banks may be filling up
the automatic teller machines (ATM) numbering around 200,000 in the country to
facilitate cash withdrawals.
"We wanted to strike when Parliament is
in session. Though the strike is on a Friday, the next day is a full working
day for the banks. There will be no bunching of holidays," he said.
Venkatachalam said the strike was against the
unwarranted banking reform measures. The
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The nine constituent units of UFBU are:
AIBEA, AIBOC, NCBE, AIBOA, BEFI, INBEF, INBOC, NOBW and NOBO.
According to Venkatachalam, unmindful of the
adverse implications, the government was pursuing the reform measures in the
banking sector like inadequate infusion of capital in public sector banks which
will result in reduction of government's equity capital and create compulsion
for higher extent of private capital leading to privatisation of banks.
He said the unions also opposed the decision
to privatise IDBI Bank by reducing the government capital to less than 49 per
cent, proposals of consolidation for public sector banks but expansion for
private sector banks, giving licences to corporate houses to start banks,
ineffective steps to recover the bulging bad loans in the banks, and rather
showering concessions to the defaulters and others. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
"We demand that willful and deliberate
defaulters should be declared as criminal offenders and punished," he
said.
Venkatachalam said the total bank loans
wilfully defaulted by borrowers was Rs 58,792 crore.
He said the total quantum of bad loans of the
government owned banks stood at Rs 539,995 crore as on March 31, 2016.
"But the government and the RBI (Reserve
Bank of India) are not taking tough measures to recover the bad loans. Even the
(defaulters') names are not being published," he said. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
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