Nearly a month after terrorists killed a regional rural financial institution in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on June 2, the Union finance ministry directed the administration of RRBs and their sponsors to deal with the safety issues of workers within the union. Jammu and Kashmir area on precedence foundation.
A complete guideline was given to Regional Rural Banks to conduct sector-wise evaluations to grasp regional and native points consistent with the directive issued by the ministry, reveals the minutes of the July 7 assembly chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman , which was obtained. Indian Express via an RTI.
The assembly was attended by Ministers of State (Finance) Bhagwat Ok Karad and Purushottam Rupala, Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, senior officers of the Department of Financial Services, senior financial institution officers of RRBs and scheduled business banks.
Militants on 2nd June The homicide of Vijay Kumar Beniwal, a local of Rajasthan, a supervisor in SBI-affiliated Elaqui Dehati Bank (EDB), inside his cell in Kulgam district. one other Gramin Bank Employee – Vivek Kumar There was an assault exterior his financial institution in Pattan space of Baramulla on October 3, the day Union Home Minister Amit Shah started his three-day go to to Jammu and Kashmir. However, Vivek Kumar narrowly escaped.
“The concerns of the banking personnel working in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir with respect to their safety and human resource issues are to be addressed on a priority basis,” the minutes of the assembly stated. According to the minutes of the assembly, “There is a need for a sector-wise review of RRBs to understand the regional and local issues.”
J&Ok has two RRBs – EDB and J&Ok Gramin Bank – with a department energy of 343 throughout the state. It is estimated that round 200 non-local Gramin Bank workers are posted within the Kashmir area. An RRB official stated that non-local workers have been towards being posted in distant areas and wished to work near city institutions.
“There is a request to shift the non-local employees from remote areas of the state to areas closer to urban establishments. There is no movement on that yet and the employees are risking their lives,” stated an RRB worker. He stated that the issue shouldn’t be restricted to Jammu and Kashmir solely, however there are incidents and threats of kidnapping of workers and launch for ransom in some states of Northeast as properly.
Officers in RRBs are recruited via the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) which conducts a nationwide examination for every rural financial institution. Based on the emptiness in a sure RRB, IBPS conducts an examination the place eligible candidates from throughout the nation seem. Hence, an individual from Rajasthan can work with an RRB in Kashmir on passing the examination. However, the issue is that the principles don’t permit switch between RRBs, resulting from which the workers need to work in a selected state or area for his or her whole tenure.
The ministry’s course to conduct a sector-wise assessment of regional rural banks to grasp regional and native points comes within the wake of Nirmala Sitharaman’s latest assertion on the necessity for deputation of native language-knowing officers for purchasers going through banking sector jobs. Is.
“What is the difficulty in learning a language? I am from south. I try to learn a little bit of Hindi, no matter how bad my delivery. As long as I have a land of work, I have to learn the language. I do not understand how IBA can entertain officers who get posted in one area and cannot speak the language of that region,” she had stated at an IBA occasion on September 16.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
