Chennai:
Most of the ATMs across the city went dry as thousands of
bank employees in the city joined the nation wide agitation protesting against proposed Banking Law (amendments) Bill, which
is expected to come up in the parliament during the monsoon session, and
several other issues.
On the first day of
the strike in the city, thousands of employees
The convenor
of Tamil Nadu UFBU C M Baskaran told Express that the strike by employees
was a huge success and they will staging demonstration in front of State Bank
of Hyderabad in Moore Street on the second day of the strike on Friday.
SBI sources said that most of the ATMs in bank branches have
gone dry but the offsite ATMs are still functioning as the cash is being loaded
by people from outside. Tamil Nadu has about 7,000 public sector bank branches
with about 70,000 employees.
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