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STATE BANK OF INDIA OFFICERS ASSOCIATION

[Chennai Circle]


State Bank Buildings,
# 84, Rajaji Salai,
Post Box No.1992,
Chennai 600 001.








Telephone : 25227170
25228773
Fax : 25261013
E-mail: sbioacc@yahoo.com
Website: www.sbioacc.com


Circular to All Unit Secretaries / Members: No. 56 /65/ 2013
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September 2013
Dear Comrades,

OUTSTANDING ISSUES
CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR UNITY AND SOLIDARITY: ISSUES RESOLVED
CIRCLE LEVEL STRIKE ACTION ON 16.09.2013 WITHDRAWN

We refer to our Circular No.56/63/2013 dated 31/08/2013 regarding proposed Strike Action on 16
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Sept
2013. We have been receiving numerous messages, emails and communications from our enthusiastic
militant comrades expressing solidarity with the cause for the circle level strike notice. We wish to place
on record our deep sense of appreciation and indebtedness to the overwhelming support expressed by our
highly disciplined and committed comrades of our association.

As a sequel to the strike notice, the Circle Management had convened the Circle Negotiation Council on
04.09.2013. Your Association leadership has been following up the issues with the Circle Development
Officer and the Personnel Dept. Com. D Suresh Kumar, President and Com. D Thomas Franco Rajendra
Dev, General Secretary met the DGM & CDO on 03/09/2013 and discussed all the strike issues and CNC
agenda and as a result many issues were sorted out in the meeting.

On 04.09.2013, the CNC meeting was convened and was Chaired by Smt. Varsha Purandare, Chief
General Manager of the Circle. On behalf of the Bank, Shri Sanjiv Chadha GM, Network I, Shri S
Kirthivasan, GM II, Shri.Packirisamy J, GM, CAG, Shri P N Prasad, GM, MCG, Shri R J Ghatey, GM, MCG;
Shri Krushna Mohan Sathpathy, DGM & CDO, all the DGMs (B&O) of the Modules, AGM(HR), Chief
Manager (IR), LHO and CM (HR) of Modules were present. On behalf of the Circle Association, Com. D
Suresh Kumar, President; Com. Thomas Franco Rajendra Dev, General Secretary; Com. A Krishnan, Vice-
President; Comrades. Senthi Kumar T; Santhana Krishnan T N, Mohan M and Manoharan K, Dy. General
Secretaries, Coms. Vallikannan P and Radjarame V, Dy. Treasurers, Com. R Balaji, Regional Secretary,
Chennai I; Com. A Ravichandran, Regional Secretary, Chennai II; Com. G Selvaraj, Regional Secretary,
Coimbatore; Com. R Sethu, Regional Secretary, Madurai; Com. M Asok, and Com. A Karunaharan Dy.
Regional Secretaries, Tiruchirapalli, Com. V Subburaj, Dy. Regional Secretary, Chennai I; Com.
Jayaraman T, Dy. Regional Secretary, Chennai II; Com. C Balaji, Dy. Regional Secretary, Coimbatore; and
Com.J Joseph Stalin, Dy. Regional Secretary, Madurai were present.

We produce the gist of the discussions held on 03/09/13 and 04/09/13 as under for the information of the
members:

1. Stifling Trade Union Activities: Management has assured that permission to hold Unit meetings
in Banks premises will henceforth be granted. A meeting at LHO premises was held on 04/09/2013
evening. More than 100 members participated. Com. D Suresh Kumar, President, Com. D Thomas
Franco Rajendra Dev, General Secretary and Com. R Balaji, Regional Secretary, Chennai I
addressed the gathering.

2. Violation of Transfer Policy norms: Management assured that transfers shall be done as per
Transfer policy norms barring the cases where exigency of service is required.

3. Victimisation of Officers: Individual cases will be looked into.

4. Harassment of Officers: Individual cases were discussed with the CDO

5. Pressurising Officers to carry out verbal instructions: Banks instructions will be followed.

6. Relieving of Officers under IMT: All the Officers under IMT have been relieved and a few who
have been relieved are yet to report at the transferee Module.

7. Posting of Assistant Managers(S) under IMT (RMROs & CROs): Management explained that
the NPA position of the Bank is very critical and RMROs are engaged in the follow up exercise and
relieving them at this juncture will affect the performance of the Circle. They have agreed to
release the posting and relieve them subsequently at a later date.



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8. Payment of Personal Allowance: Personal Allowance has already been sanctioned at LHO to 15
Officers, and to many at Modules and it will be paid to all eligible Officers on application, based
on the clarifications received from the Corporate Centre.

9. Maintenance of Staff Quarters at SAF Games Village: Sanction for repairing and maintenance
of Quarters shall be accorded to those who apply for the same.

10. Adequate Compensation for working on Holidays: Management assured to consider the
demand.

11. Transfers throughout the year: During the next annual transfer exercise, management will try
to ensure that all the transfers are completed before June. The matter will be pursued at the
Corporate Centre also.

12. Holding of periodical bipartite meetings like CNC etc.: Assured to conduct the Bipartite
meetings periodically at regular intervals. The next CNC meeting is scheduled to be held on
20/11/2013 and the Regional Negotiation Council meetings at Modules will be completed at
quarterly intervals.

13. Posting of one more Officer to Single Officer Branches: A proposal for converting the RMROs
as generalists is under the consideration of the Management. JMG Promotions will be completed
shortly. This will ease the shortage of officers.

14. Standardisation of Medical Expenses: A recommendation for revision of charges has been sent
to Corporate Centre for approval.

15. Training for Field Officers: Training for 357 RMROs has been completed and the remaining shall
be trained in batches soon. The Managements is keen on training all officials.

16. Procedure for hospitalization to be simplified: Necessary instructions to the tie up hospitals
have been given for treatment in case of emergency treatment.

17. Probationary Officers and Trainee Officers adhering to training schedule: Normally, the
training schedule is adhered to. However, depending on certain special occasions their services are
utilized temporarily for NPA recovery, marketing etc.

18. Sanction of fitment: Fitment for Scale III and above received from Modules are completed and
in case of Scales I & II Modules have been advised to complete it within a fortnight.

19. Enhancement of Rental Advance at Dharmapuri, Gudalur, Tirupur, Nagercoil, Madurai,
Tiruchirapalli and Karur: Management will consider the issue when recommendations are
received from Modules.

20. Security: Recruitment of Security guards is under process. However, getting adequate number of
applications is a problem. The present recruitment which will be completed before 31.10.2013 will
ease the problem.

21. CBS related problems: Problems relating to VVR checking have been taken up by LHO ITSS
department with Corporate Centre.

The management has expressed its concern about the mounting NPA especially, in Agri segment and
requested our support in this regard. We have assured that our members will certainly contribute their
best in the recovery of NPA.

We request our comrades to adhere to the systems and procedures of our Bank and also follow rules and
regulations to avoid pitfalls.

We are glad that the Management has settled most of the issues and the family atmosphere has been
restored and the Association has decided to withdraw the Circle level strike call on 16.09.2013. We once
again thank you for the heart-warming solidarity and total support to the cause of our Association. We
also thank the Staff Union for their solidarity support.

SBIOACC ZINDABAD - AISBOF ZINDABAD - OUR UNITY ZINDABAD

With Greetings,


Comradely yours,


(D. THOMAS FRANCO RAJENDRA DEV)
GENERAL SECRETARY