The All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) on Saturday called for a nation-wide strike on June 24 in support of various demands of the State Sector Bank Employees Association (SSBEA).
SSBEA, under its umbrella, has various unions of associate banks of SBI such as State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Travancore, State Bank of Hyderabad and State Bank of Mysore and the like, which are also associated with AIBEA.
Beside the nation-wide strike call, unions of associate banks — under SSBEA — have also called for a strike on June 4 in their respective cities pressing for their demands.
The demands include delinking associate banks from SBI, not curbing right of trade unions’ right of representation, extension of compassionate appointment scheme as per government guidelines, increase in quantum of staff housing loan, recruitment of sub-staff and part-time employees and resolving pending demands, among others, AIBEA General Secretary C.H. Venkatachalam told PTI.
He accused the SBI management of hampering the performance of associate banks due to its “bossy approach.”
Hurry up on account details of Trinamool, CBI tells
CBI on Saturday stepped up the heat in the ruling Trinamool Congress when it called up the nationalized bank located at Harish Mukherjee Road in which the Trinamool has several accounts and asked them to speed up their reply to the CBI notice. The central agency, as TOI had pointed out three days ago, asked for the bank's clarification on the TMC accounts after it found certain discrepancies in the documents submitted to them by the party. CBI has maintained that any conclusion of irregularities can only be drawn after they receive the statement from the bank and it is scrutinized vis-a-vis the Trinamool documents. The bank has already clarified that it will answer the notice from CBI by the beginning of next week.
CBI sources also confirmed that they are in touch with the Income Tax department in this matter. "We are in touch with them and are seeking their help in the probe. The IT fepartment has already collected a few documents in this regard and those papers will help us complete our probe faster," a senior officer in Delhi explained.
CBI sources said the bank was sent notice on two counts - one, to ascertain the quantum of funds maintained in these accounts and two, trace the sources from which they came. The Trinamool Congress maintains 21 accounts through which it received donations. It is the second aspect of the notice that the CBI is worried. "We have not found any attempt on part of the party to answer our query on sources. As a probe agency, we will be asking uncomfortable questions which the election commission might not be asking them," said the same officer.
According to sources the Trinamool's balance sheet seems at best "incomplete" even if there might "not be an attempt to hide facts." Sources say the glaring "mistakes" include not mentioning the source of money where cheques were used. "Perhaps they thought that tracing cheques would be easier given in many transactions, only cash was used," said another source.
The CBI had earlier hinted that the party had received donations even worth Rs 1 crore in a single day. There are instances too of donations between Rs 5 lakh and Rs25 lakh given to the party, he said adding there were many such donations coming from the districts like Birbhum, Hooghly, Howrah, Kolkata, East Midnapore and South and North 24 Parganas. These are exactly the districts where the Saradha network were the strongest. The letter assumes importance against the backdrop of allegations that the lions' part of the money raised from the chit fund fraud went to incur the electoral expenses of a particular political party between the year 2009 and 2014.
The CBI team has been raising the red flag on two specific issues ever since the past two months: Having gone through the set of documents submitted by Trinamool, CBI sources said they were yet to be satisfied on two issues. One, there is still confusion on the break-up of payments received from the sale of the chief minister's paintings in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 financial years, including cash transactions. The total amount shown is Rs 6.47 crore. Additionally, there is no elaborate explanation on the Rs 1.4 crore Trinamool received as a "donation" from Trinetra in 2014. Former Trinamool general secretary Mukul Roy had claimed that the amount was a "repayable loan".
A scrutiny of Trinetra's bank accounts brought to light a debit of Rs 1.4 crore in March last year to an 'election account' in a nationalized bank. In the next month, the company again paid Rs 4.2 crore to the same 'election account'. In that month alone, five payments were made to the nationalized bank's account, said a source. This amount is significantly more than the controversial Rs 1.4 crore figure that was earlier thought to be the only transfer that the firm had made.
CBI sources also confirmed that they are in touch with the Income Tax department in this matter. "We are in touch with them and are seeking their help in the probe. The IT fepartment has already collected a few documents in this regard and those papers will help us complete our probe faster," a senior officer in Delhi explained.
CBI sources said the bank was sent notice on two counts - one, to ascertain the quantum of funds maintained in these accounts and two, trace the sources from which they came. The Trinamool Congress maintains 21 accounts through which it received donations. It is the second aspect of the notice that the CBI is worried. "We have not found any attempt on part of the party to answer our query on sources. As a probe agency, we will be asking uncomfortable questions which the election commission might not be asking them," said the same officer.
According to sources the Trinamool's balance sheet seems at best "incomplete" even if there might "not be an attempt to hide facts." Sources say the glaring "mistakes" include not mentioning the source of money where cheques were used. "Perhaps they thought that tracing cheques would be easier given in many transactions, only cash was used," said another source.
The CBI had earlier hinted that the party had received donations even worth Rs 1 crore in a single day. There are instances too of donations between Rs 5 lakh and Rs25 lakh given to the party, he said adding there were many such donations coming from the districts like Birbhum, Hooghly, Howrah, Kolkata, East Midnapore and South and North 24 Parganas. These are exactly the districts where the Saradha network were the strongest. The letter assumes importance against the backdrop of allegations that the lions' part of the money raised from the chit fund fraud went to incur the electoral expenses of a particular political party between the year 2009 and 2014.
The CBI team has been raising the red flag on two specific issues ever since the past two months: Having gone through the set of documents submitted by Trinamool, CBI sources said they were yet to be satisfied on two issues. One, there is still confusion on the break-up of payments received from the sale of the chief minister's paintings in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 financial years, including cash transactions. The total amount shown is Rs 6.47 crore. Additionally, there is no elaborate explanation on the Rs 1.4 crore Trinamool received as a "donation" from Trinetra in 2014. Former Trinamool general secretary Mukul Roy had claimed that the amount was a "repayable loan".
A scrutiny of Trinetra's bank accounts brought to light a debit of Rs 1.4 crore in March last year to an 'election account' in a nationalized bank. In the next month, the company again paid Rs 4.2 crore to the same 'election account'. In that month alone, five payments were made to the nationalized bank's account, said a source. This amount is significantly more than the controversial Rs 1.4 crore figure that was earlier thought to be the only transfer that the firm had made.
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