Employees
Association (AIBEA) and the All India Bank Officers Association (AIBOA) have
given a call for demonstration against the problems that various banks and
their employees were facing due to demonetisation.
They plan to undertake demonstrations on
December 28, followed by the unions addressing a letter to Union Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley on December 29. The unions also plan to stage
demonstrations on the issue on January 2 and 3.
AIBEA general secretary C.H. Venkatchalam and
his AIBOA counterpart S. Nagrajan, in a statement issued on Tuesday, said: “As
per the call of our organisations, already our units have undertaken the
programme of demonstrations in all major centres and met the local executives
of the RBI to hand over our memorandum.”
The unions have demanded supply of adequate
cash to all banks and branches, restoration of all ATMs without further delay
and transparency in cash supply to banks.
“If the RBI is not able to supply adequate cash
to banks, then decision should be taken to suspend cash transactions in the
bank branches till sufficient cash is supplied to banks,” the statement said.
They also demanded a CBI inquiry into the cases
of seizure of huge number of new currency with some persons when bank branches
are cash starved.
The unions demanded compensation to the
families of the persons and bank staff who lost their lives recently due to
demonetisation.
They asked the RBI and State governments to
ensure safety and protection of bank employees and officers by maintaining law
and order in all branches to prevent harassment of the staff.
The Bank employees also demanded proper
compensation to employees and officers for their extra work/late sittings done
in the last more than a month.
Both the unions claim to have over 5.50 lakh
members out of the nearly 9 lakh bank employees in the country.
Source: The Hindu
