On the call of All India Bank Officers Confederation , a body having more than 3.20 lac members across the country, carried out a candle march , today , on 20th December , from SBI LHO Sector 17 and after passing through bank square the march culminate at Punjab National Bank , Bank Square Sector-17 , Chandigarh, More than 1000 bank officers participated in the march.
They were demand their long pending Wage Revision as per Charter of Demand for all officer up to Scale VII , updation /revision of pension and family pension , introduction of five day week with immediate effect , stop mis- selling of third party products , focus on core business and NPA recovery , stop merger of Public Sector Banks , for which they hold massive demonstration on 4th, 11th, 14th and on 17th December,2018 to press acceptance of their genuine demands at the earliest. But there is no sincere/serious efforts either from IBA or DFS to avert the strike.
Speaking on the occasion Com Deepak Sharma , Joint General Secretary of AIBOC , strongly criticize the government and IBA for delay in their wage revision , which is due since November 2017 and demand immediate wage hike as per the charter of Demand for all the officers up to scale VII . He also demand immediate implementation of five day week . He further told that bank officers will observe 24 hour strike on 21st December to press for acceptance of their demands.
Com. Sanjay Sharma , President SBIOA, Chandigarh Circle , strongly criticize the central government and IBA for ignoring long pending demands and asked to settle the at earliest . He further stated that government is hand in glove with big corporate defaulters, who are having almost 84% of total NPAs of banks and this is the main reasons for loss and weak position of PSBs.
Speaking on the occasion Com T S Saggu , State Secretary , AIBOC strongly criticize the government move of merger /amalgamation of Public Sector Banks and said that on the one side government is issuing licenses to the new small banks and on the other side they are merging the PSBs in the name of weak banks the all most all the PSBs are in operating profit and in net loss due to provisioning. Government is not serious about recovery from big corporate defaulters and are not making stringent laws for the recovery from them. He further stated that in case their demands were not accepted , the agitational programme would be intensified.
Sh. Ashok Goyal , President AIBOC , Chandigarh state also address the gathering. Others who were present on the demonstration are Com Vipin Beri , Com. Harvinder Singh , Com. Sacin Kumar , Com . Arun Sikka Com D N Sharma , Com. H S Loona, Com. Neeru Saldi , Com. Balwinder Singh
