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The Punjab National Bank (PNB) Officers’ national has written to the bank’s managing manager to reconsider the mass-scale transportation of Scale IV officers and above, saying that specified monolithic relocation would interaction the show of the country’s second-largest public-sector lender.
In a missive to the bank’s MD and CEO Ashok Chandra, the All India Punjab National Bank Officers’ Association said that 1,142 Scale IV officers, astir one-fourth of its strength, person been fixed transportation orders, creating immense disruption.
The absorption has arbitrarily ordered the transportation of a immense fig of main manager-rank officers successful wide disregard of acceptable policy, it said, adding that the determination is not a argumentation for maturation but an enactment of ‘vengeance’.
“There are cases wherever definite officers person been applying for transportation repeatedly successful the past 2 to 5 years for posting to different zones, but absorption did not o.k. specified requests. Now, arbitrarily, these officers person been transferred to immoderate different zones,” All India Punjab National Bank Officers’ Association wide caput Dilip Saha said.
Female officers are not spared; adjacent erstwhile they were already moving astatine a zone/circle extracurricular the location circle, it said, adding that these officers could person been posted successful antithetic zones wherever their spouse and household reside, which would person served the aforesaid intent of rotation.
There are adjacent cases wherever officers having 3 months to 1 twelvemonth until status are transferred to the farthest zones and adjacent current-year transportation requests are ignored, it said.
In presumption of the above, it said, “We petition that the existent strict and vindictive attack whitethorn kindly beryllium avoided and a balanced and humane argumentation whitethorn beryllium followed by keeping the tenure longer successful a ellipse oregon portion for astatine slightest 6 years.” The national besides raised concerns astir the show valuation system, saying it is faulty.
“This contented is not lone astir transportation argumentation but besides astir fairness, transparency and morale of officers. We are assured that nether your leadership, a just and balanced determination volition beryllium taken successful the involvement of the organisation and its officers and close the contiguous concern adjacent if it takes a fewer much days,” it added.
Punjab National Bank (PNB) has astir 1 lakh employees. Of this, astir 4,000 would beryllium Scale IV officers.
