Govt not open to Bank Officers' inputs; Bankers are restless
New Delhi, 2nd December, 2016: "The
major problem is currency crunch. Sufficient supply of cash is not
there. Our ATMs dry up within a few minutes,. Even soiled, mutilated
and non-issuable notes deposited by the banks with RBI are being sent
back for circulation, because there is this desperate situation,"
says Harvinder Singh, General Secretary of All India Bank Officers'
Confederation, who reportedly represents 2.75 lakh bank officers
countrywide.
"No
new supply is coming in required quantity. I am getting reports from
many parts of the country, particularly Hyderabad, West Bengal,
remote areas in UP, Noida, Ghaziabad... So, it takes a lot of time to
keep the supply intact. My officers are working day and night. We
are supporting the government, going to any extent, but ultimately,
there is some limit.
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"Nowadays,
some
politicians have started giving calls to the public, "If you
do not get money from the bank, burn the bank, destroy the property
of the bank. ATM jala do." Day before yesterday, I have sent a
communication
to the hon'ble Finance Minister, requesting security to our staff
and bank property of public sector banks. But unfortunately, no
authority is replying to our communications," said the trade
union leader in an exclusive interview to Delhi-based journalist
Varun Krishna on 23rd November.
"In
the last 10-12 days, I have sent so many suggestions, but nobody is
responding. We are supporting in implementing government policies,
but my request to all of them (government) is, listen to us at least!
Whatever suggestions we give is so that the system becomes
efficient. The subject matter of our suggestions are concerning our
daily working, and where we are directly affected by these government policies.
"Prime
Minister, Finance Minister and even CVC have appreciated the job
being done by bank employees, but only appreciations do not work.
Our hard work – even earlier at the time of rolling out Jan Dhan
Yojana -- is appreciated by everybody, but when it comes to meeting
the demands of bank officers, they tell us that the banks don't have
paying capacity. But how will the paying capacity come? If we are
doing this job of monetization and Jan Dhan Yojana for many days, and
we are not doing any profitable job, then the bank will not be in
profit.
"Of
course this work is desirable as far as social objective is
concerned, and we are doing it. But this is not earning anything for
the bank! Whereas the private sector banks are not doing all this.
They will never open Jan Dhan Yojana accounts, they will not be
actively participating in this demonetization process, and there are
a lot of irregularities there. Nobody is checking that. So, they earn
profit while we do service, but do not earn profit. But when it comes
to compensation to us, profitability is linked to this.
"As
general secretary of AIBOC, the largest bankers' organization
representing 2.75 lakh officers, I demand from the government that we
should be given our due share. Of course I understand that this is
not the time to raise our demands, but I want to caution the
government that if you are expecting us to do all these things, when
the time comes, do not link the banks' paying capacity with our
demands," said the bankers' trade union leader.
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