Retired bank employees demand family pension hike

Amaravati: All India Bankers Retirees Federation National General Secretary SC Jain has demanded that the family pension of the retired bank employees should be increased from 15 per cent to 30 per cent and stated that the issue has been pending for the last 25 years. He addressed the Andhra Pradesh Bank Retirees Federation (APBRF) annual meeting organised by the All India Retired Bankers Federation (AIRBF) at PB Siddhartha college auditorium here on Sunday.

The main agenda of the annual meet was to discuss the various problems faced by the retired bank employees. The chief guest of the annual meeting SC Jain addressing the gathering said there is a variation in retirement benefits of the bank employees who retired before 2002 and after 2002. He informed that the bank employees who retired after 2002 are getting more retirement benefits compared to bank employees who retired before 2002.

He further said that there was a variation of DA also. APBRF Krishna district secretary K Yella Rao said that they made representations to the bank authorities to solve their problems but there was no response from the Government. He said the retired employees protested on April 4 at Jantar Mantar, Delhi demanding the government to address their problems. He said more than 20,000 retired bank employees from all over India participated in the protest but there was no reaction from the Government.

He further said the retired employees would continue struggle to put pressure on the government to resolve their long pending problems. AIRBF vice-president K Viswanath Naik, state president Rajendra Prasad, Krishna district president JB Ratnam and others from 13 districts of AP participated in the meeting.