Bank employees of the city protested against the government policies regarding their demands. A two day bank strike was also called today, shutting down all government and private banks.

Due to strike, more than 7000 drafts and cheques of Rs.70 Crore are stuck for further processing.

A large number of bank employees under the leadership of D.K Jain, P.S Khichi, O.P Mutha, G.L Joshi, B.L Agarwal and Raman Sood first gathered outside HDFC Bank, Durga Nursery Road and started demonstrating against government.

According to bank employees, “The 9^th pay settlement was concluded on 31^st Oct 2012 and the 10^th pay settlement should be applied on 1^st Nov 2012, but even after more than one year, Indian Bank Union has not taken any effective action.”

D.K Jain, a coordinator of United Forum of Bank Union said, “Government is partial over bank employees’ prolong issue as the pay commission of central government employees is implemented a year before.”

Jain added, “When public banks gives profit of Rs. 50,000 crore then why cannot the government increase the pay of employees.”

Banks will remain close on 11^th Feb too and a protest will be held at Durga Nursery Road and Bank Tiraha.