RBI, Nabard staff to join strike on Sept 2

Employees of the Reserve Bank and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural 

Development (Nabard) will join the strike called by central trade unions and 

federations on 

September 2.

The RBI unions have put forward a charted of demands, prominent among which

 relates to 

the Centre’s proposed labour law reforms, said Samir Ghosh, general secretary, 

All-India 

Reserve Bank Employees Association, and SV Mahadik, general secretary, 

All-India Reserve 

Bank Workers’ Federation.

The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission has proposed that

 several long-

established departments may be done away with. The cessation of the 

Public Debt Office is 

hanging fire. Thus, the RBI is being sought to be made subservient to the Ministry of 

Finance.

Meanwhile, VK Bhosale, general secretary, All-India Nabard Employees 

Association, too 

charged that basic trade union rights of workers have come under 

attack in recent times.