State Bank to grant two-day special leave to employees
State
Bank of India will grant special leave of two days to its employees as
reward for having taken additional stress since November 8 when
demonetisation was announced.
Employees would be able to avail
this leave any time until March 2018, said SBI Chairman Arundhati
Bhattacharya in Mumbai on Wednesday.
"Our employees will get
rewarded, I am sure. We are looking into what can be done. We have
already given overtime wherever it is due."
On the issue of new
currency notes being diverted by some bank employees, Bhattacharya
clarified that in any system there would be a few bad examples.
She
observed that such incidents of Rs.100-200 crore being diverted to a
select few had created doubts in the minds of people. The banking sector
had dispensed Rs.7 lakh crore worth of money in the system during this
period. But those who are guilty of such malpractices will be dealt in
accordance with law, she said.
Bankers have been going about their
job silently and without being given credit for implementing such a
challenging task, she said.
They had been putting in late hours and many could not go home in the initial few days, she
said.
The
SBI chief said that there were checks and balances in place but if
checks were tightened further, banks would not be able to serve their
customers.
SBI was using analytics to ascertain the number of
notes received by the bank versus the number issued to customers,
besides reporting suspicious transactions on a daily basis, Bhattacharya
said.
Source :
The Hindu
