Vuyyuru: Municipal staff dump garbage at bank for 'denying' loans

Vuyyuru: The employees of the Union Bank of India here were in for a rude shock on Thursday when some employees of the municipality dumped garbage at the entrance of the bank on the pretext that the bank employees are wilfully avoid granting loans to the municipal employees.

The bank employees alleged that Municipal Commissioner Prakasa Rao personally supervised the dumping of the garbage before the bank.

When contacted, Municipal Commissioner Prakasa Rao said that their staff had dumped the garbage on his instructions before the bank. He said that the bank staff failed to respond to the appeal of the officials to extend loans for the government programmes of Jagananna Cheyuta and other programmes. He said that he wanted to register his protest against the indifferent attitude of the bank employees in the implementation of the government schemes by way of dumping garbage at the bank.

He said that the municipal staff would remove the garbage later in the day.

Surprisingly, similar incidents were reported at Machilipatnam and Vijayawada also. An employee of Andhra Bank said that the miscreants dumped the garbage before the branches at Bodemma hotel, Sitaramapuram and other places in Vijayawada. Andhra Bank Award Employees Union general secretary Uday Kumar said that it appeared that the powers that we are in a war against the bank employees.

He said that the municipal staff not only dumped the garbage but also placed some boards justifying their act.

Taking strong exception to the act of the municipal staff he said that it was atrocious to cast aspersions on the bank employees who were bound by the rules.