Punjab Mandi Board held a meeting with Union

Thursday 14th March 2024 at 5:20 PM

The demands of the employees were discussed in detail 

Mohali/Chandigarh: 14th March 2024: (Karthika SIngh-Media Link//Employees Screen Desk):: 

Chairman of Punjab Mandi Board held a meeting with members of Class Fourth Government Employees Union to discuss all the demands and other related issues. As per the fixed program the demands of the employees were discussed in detail during the meeting.

An important meeting was held by Harchand Singh Barsat with the representatives of Class Fourth Government Employees Union at the main office of Punjab Mandi Board. During this, the demands of the employees were discussed in detail.

On this occasion, Union President Darshan Singh Lubana gave detailed information about the demands of the employees to the Chairman of Punjab Mandi Board. He s. Recalling the struggles he had fought with Barsat in the past for the welfare of the employees, he said that he has always stood in favor of the employees. On this occasion S. Harchand Singh Barsat assured the union representatives that their demands would be met.

He said that while the Punjab government is striving for the welfare of every section of the society, it is also committed to the welfare of the employees. He said that he always keeps the interests of the employees ahead and in future also the employees will not be allowed to face any kind of problem and he will continue to work for the welfare of the employees. 

On this occasion, Secretary of Punjab Mandi Board, Smt. Amrit Kaur Gill, Engineer in Chief S. Gurdeep Singh, Chief Engineer S. Gurinder Singh Cheema, Ranjit Singh Ranua, Raman Kumar Sharma, Kuldeep Singh, Balkar Singh Sahota, Gurinder Singh Guri, Vijay Kumar Rinku and other representatives of the union were present.

Stop merger of banks//Stop banking reforms

Thursday: 2nd January 2020 at 4:52 PM

Bank employees and officers will be joining the National General Strike

• Ensure recovery of bad loans, take stringent action on defaulters 

• Do not harass customers with penal charges & do not increase in service charges, Increase interest rate on Deposits 

• Stop attacks on jobs and job security 

• Adequate recruitment in all Banks 

Ludhiana: 2nd January 2019: (Employees Screen Bureau)::

On the call given by 11 Central Trade Unions and many other independent trade/Industrial Federations and from Banking sector ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION(AIBEA), AIBOA, BEFI, INBEF and INBOC for ALL INDIA STRIKE ON 08th January, 2020, a meeting of Punjab Bank Employees’ Federation (Ludhiana Unit) was held today at office of State Bank of India Employees’ Union, Chandigarh Circle near Bharat Nagar Chowk Ludhiana. Various leaders of PBEF, Com. Naresh Gaur, Secretary, Com. Pawan Thakur, President, Com. Harvinder Singh, Com. Rajesh Verma, Com. Jarnail Singh, Com. Narkesar Rai, Com. Parveen Aggarwal, Com. Rajwinder Singh and other top leaders of Punjab Bank Employees Federation attended and addressed the meeting. 

While addressing the meeting Com Naresh Gaur said that Bank employees and officers will be joining the National General Strike on 08th January, 2020 

 In support of Charter of Demands of National Convention of workers.

 Against banking reforms and unwarranted merger of banks.

 Demanding stringent measures to recover defaulted loans from corporate.

 Expedite wage revision and related issues.

 Adequate recruitment in Banks.

While addressing the meeting Com Naresh Gaur said that, in this background, the public sector banks have a very special and pivotal role to play. Public sector banking was ushered into in our country when State Bank of India came into being in 1955. Thereafter, 14 major private banks nationalized in 1969 and another 6 private banks were nationalized in 1980. Thus public sector banks became the mainstay of Indian banking sector. These public sector banks have been playing a leading role in augmenting the precious savings of the people and deploying the same as credit to all the needy sectors of the economy. From a mere 8000 branches, today banks have grown into an industry with 90,000 branches. Branches have been opened in many nook and corner villages thus taking banking to the common people. From a total deposit of Rs. 5000 crores, today public sector banks have mobilized nearly Rs. 85 Lac crores as deposits. Similarly, from total loans and advances of Rs. 3500 crores, today public sector banks have extended loans to the extent of Rs. 60 lac crores. But unfortunately, in the name of new economic policies and liberalization of banking regulations, banking sector reforms are being pursued in the last 28 years by successive Governments. The main idea to de-regulate the banking sector and liberalise the existing controls. The attempt is to privatise these banks and hand over back to private sector. As responsible trade unions in the banking sector, we have been consistently opposing these reform measures. But the attempts to weaken public sector banks have continued and Government desires to pursue their agenda on banking reforms. The main agenda is to privatise the Banks and this would imply privatizing the huge and precious savings of the people. Hence we oppose any attempt to privatise the Banks. When the Government is contemplating to take the country towards 5 trillion economy, the role of banks is very critical to achieve this objective. Banks have to enlarge their credit portfolio in a big way. More and more loans and advances have to be given. Increase in credit depends upon availability of adequate capital. Hence, Government should adequately recapitalize all the Public Sector Banks. What we need in our country is expansion of banks and not consolidation of Banks.

Universally, any process of merger, consolidation or amalgamation has resulted in reduction of staff. In fact, it is one of the purpose of mergers to ensure a lean organisation and achieve reduction in labour cost to show more profit. Hence mergers will result in staff redundancy and threaten job security besides drastically reducing future job potential thus depriving the youth to get jobs.

While the business of the Banks have gone up, while more number of branches have been opened, while the workload in the branches has gone up, the number of workmen employees are getting reduced in all the Banks. These vacancies are not being filled up. The recruitment of staff in the Banks is coming down year after year. Regular and permanent jobs in the Banks are being outsourced on contractual basis. There is an urgent need to adequately recruit employees in all the Banks.

Let the Rulers of this country open their eyes to the woes of the People and take steps for solving People’s issues.

On Strike Date i.e. 08th January, 2020, Punjab Bank Employees’ Federation (Ludhiana Unit) has decided to hold a massive rally in front of Canara Bank, Bharat Nagar Chowk Ludhiana.