Dear friends, I have seen many reactions from our members and well wishers about my decision of keeping my self away from the AIBOC NEGOTIATING TEAM. Believe me friends, I have not done so to project me a martyr or a rebel, but, it is the time to ventilate my feelings. Canara bank officers Association members who are regularly reading my letters must be knowing that I am constantly and continuously preaching following points for the last three years. A strong banking industry is the back bone of the economy and the presence of performing PSBs is the indicator of prosperity and an assurance to social development. It is quite unfortunate that there was an attempt to sabotage this industry from 1990 by way of introducing the private sector banks, diluting the Govt. holdings and even the SVRS and subsequent embargo on recruitment. But the dedicated and duty conscious workforce ensured the well being of banking sector and the PSBs are commanding 70% market share despite various odds. It is because of the wrong decision of imposing embargo on the recruitment after SVRS 2001, age profile of the workforce has gone up and the industry was suffering from staff shortage despite multi fold growth of the industry. Industry was under compulsion to recruit immediately during 2009, otherwise the entire industry would be entirely closed. Fortunately the offices were recruited in big number from 2009 and I have been mentioning in various letters that it is primarily the responsibility of IBA and the Govt. to recruit and retain the INDIAN YOUTHS in the banking industry for which an attractive remuneration to be paid otherwise the industry will come to a grinding halt. But despite our best efforts, it was not appearing that the IBA and GOVT understood that it was their responsibility basically to recruit competent officers and be retained by paying attractive remuneration. Today about 40 to 60 % of the officers are recruited after 2009 in various banks, balance about 25% will be retiring in another 3 years and will be filled either by the officers recruited from now on or by promoting from out of the employees recruited after 2009. However, in the Industry, in another three years, 75% of the officers will be in the age group below 35 years and they are going to hold the position of Scale I, II and III with less exposure in banking. HDFC bank chairman hinted 85% of the transactions will be non personalised and 90% of their new branches will be located in rural area. It means we need tech savvy officers even in the rural branches to face the challenges posed by the new generation banks. It is amply clear that the industry is slowly travelling towards officer oriented/dominated and it was reliably learnt that there was discussion on making the industry as 100% officers employed in the recently concluded Gyan Sangamam in Pune, and one C&MD of a nationalised bank had submitted a paper on this subject. It should happen in the industry because that the employees are longer matriculate qualified and they are also possessing professional/ post graduate/ technical degrees and to meet their aspiration, there should be a formula to give position matching to their qualifications. With the outsourcing of maintenance and computerisation the number of sub staff and PTEs will be reduced in banks and thus the strength of officers will be equal to employees in the banking sector. When the number of officers are increasing, the role and responsibility of the officers Organisation also have to be improved. Thus it is the primary responsibility of IBA and a catalytic role of officers organisations to create conducive, comfortable, comparable and secured Woking condition for the work force in the future banks so as to attract the intellectual Indian youths to be recruited and retained in the industry. Let us be transparent and gain the courage to tell the cadres on the settlement and we need not hesitate to share the information with the members rather than increasing hype which is the primitive style. TO SUSTAIN THE INDUSTRY AND TO REACH THE GLOBAL STANDARDS WE NEED QUALITY WORKFORCE. TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL WE NEED MOTIVATORS NOT THE NEGOTIATORS WE NEED MANAGERS TO MAXIMISE THE PROFITS NOT THE ACCOUNTANTS TO CALCULATE THE LOSSES. I always believe that agitations and strikes are to attract the attention of the Masters towards the issues and not to damage the industry and institution. Similarly, my resignation from the AIBOC negotiating team is to draw the attention of the leaders to the issues and expecting cadres and not to become MARTYR or to weaken the movement. Thanks for the support. Manimaran G V
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:32:30 +0000
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