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Jagran correspondent, Muzaffarpur. There was a strike in banks demanding five-day banking work. Due to the bank strike, check clearing, cash transactions, loan related work and other banking services came to a standstill. However, online transactions were not affected.
On the call of United Forum of Bank Unions, organizations of almost all banks are involved in this movement. People faced a lot of problems due to the strike. Transactions worth more than Rs 100 crore were affected in the district. DN Trivedi, National Secretary of All India Bank Officers Association, said that the demand for a 5-day working week is justified and overdue.
He said other major financial institutions like the Reserve Bank of India, Life Insurance Corporation of India, and General Insurance Corporation are already working on the 5-day programme.
Additionally, important financial markets such as foreign exchange, currency and stock markets, as well as central and state government offices, remain closed on Saturdays.
UFBU has agreed to compensate for the reduced working days by adding an additional 40 minutes to each working day from Monday to Friday, resulting in no loss of total man-hours.
District Convenor Manoranjanam of UFBU, Vice-Convenors Pankaj Thakur and Abhishek Kumar, Sachidanand Singh of BPBEA, District Secretary of AIBOC Asim Das, Vishal Sinha of Indian Bank Association said that today the five-day working system is implemented in most of the central government offices, public-private institutions, insurance companies and secretariats of many state governments, but it is unfortunate and unjust to deprive the banking sector, which is highly trained, responsible and leading in public service.
The government's continuous evasive attitude towards this decades-old legitimate demand is creating widespread dissatisfaction and anger among bank employees.
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