Bank employees on strike today (28th Feb) - banking services may be severely affected
Posted on: 28/Feb/2017 11:37:01 AM
The bank employees are on strike today (Tuesday, 28th February) pressing their various demands. So, there is the certain possibility of banking services being affected severely today.
Their demands:
- The central government should immediately stop all reform activities in the banking sector
- Bank related jobs/assignments should not be entrusted to the outsiders.
- Immediate stringent action should take all the non-recovered debts.
- Criminal actions should be taken on the debt payment defaulters.
- Salary increase should be immediately accorded to the bank employees.
Pressing on the above demands, all the bank employees are on strike today throughout the country (Tuesday, 28th February) on a token 1-day strike.
Around 10 Lakh bank employees and officers are participating in this strike.Because of this, it is expected that all bank-related activities including cheque transactions will be severely disrupted.
As today happens to be the last day of the month, it is understood the payment of salary for February, generally paid on the last day of the month, both to the public sector as well as private sector employees, may get delayed.
