Mumbai Dec 17 PTI Banking operations across Maharashtra remained impacted for the second straight day on Friday as employees of state-run lenders continued their two-day strike against bank privatisation Disruption in services like cash withdrawals deposits and cheque clearances hit customers hard across the state Most of the state-owned banks ATMs went dry due to lack of replenishment unions said The two-day strike was called by the United Forum of Bank Unions UFBU to protest against the governments move to privatise state-run banks The government had in Budget 2021-22 announced its intent to take up privatisation of two public sector banks PSBs during the year In Maharashtra around 60000 PSB employees were on strike UFBU claimed that about nine lakh employees of state-run banks across the country observed the strike The strike was total All government-related businesses in public sector banks were hampered Most of the ATMs could not be replenished UFBUs Convenor Maharashtra Devidas Tuljapurkar said UFBU is an umbrella body of nine unions including All India Bank Officers Confederation AIBOC AIBEA and National Organisation of Bank Workers NOBW PTI HV ABM ABM

New Delhi Dec 17 PTI Lakhs of employees of public sector banks continued their strike on the second day on Friday as well to protest against proposed privatisation of banks by the government impacting normal operation across the country Shutters of branches across many parts of the country on Friday were down following the strike call given by the United Forum of Bank Union UFBU an umbrella body of nine bank unions including All India Bank Officers Confederation AIBOC All India Bank Employees Association AIBEA and National Organisation of Bank Workers NOBW As a result services such as deposits and withdrawal at branches cheque clearance and loan approvals remains paralaysed due to the two-day strike ending later in the day Public sector lenders including State Bank of India had informed customers that services in their branches might be affected due to the strike However the private sector especially new generation private sector lenders like HDFC Bank ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank are working as usual The strike is against the governments decision to privatise public sector banks which have been playing a vital role in nation building AIBEA general secretary C H Venkatachalam said AIBOC General Secretary Soumya Dutta said that about 7 lakh across the country are participating in the two-day strike In the Union Budget presented in February Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced the privatisation of two public sector banks PSBs as part of its disinvestment plan To facilitate privatisation the government has listed the Banking Laws Amendment Bill 2021 for introduction and passage during the current session of Parliament The government has already privatised IDBI Bank by selling its majority stake in the lender to LIC in 2019 and merged 14 public sector banks in the past four years PTI DP ANS ANS

नई दिल्लीः बैंकों के निजीकरण को लेकर कर्मचारियों में आक्रोश है, जिसके चलते वह आज से दो दिवसीय हड़ताल पर चले गए हैं। वहीं इस हड़ताल से देश के कई क्षेत्रों में सामान्य बैंकिंग सेवाएं प्रभावित हो रही है। यूनाइटेड फोरम ऑफ बैंक्स यूनियन (UFBU) के नेतृत्व में ऑल इंडिया बैंक ऑफिसर्स कनफेडरेशन (AIBOC), ऑल […]