RBI employees apprehensive of losing jobs,fear more outsourcing

Kolkata, Nov 09 (UNI) All India Reserve Bank Employees Association (AIRBEA) today flayed the Centre for "secretly" outsourcing several important jobs of RBI, including the currency management and clearing of cheques to private parties, even at the risk of national security.

Charging the Centre with forming a separate private company and handing them over the responsibility of a number of very sensitive jobs like clearing of cheques and counting of notes and thereby losing the annual revenue of more than Rs 350 crores, AIRBEA All India General Secretary Samir Ghosh in a largely attended convention here tonight alleged that the top management of RBI had also kept the bank employees totally in dark while outsourcing several important jobs to private companies.

Also present on the occasion was Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, West Bengal Commerce and Industries minister Nirupam Sen and CPI (M) Lok Sabha MP Rupchand Pal all of whom were also very critical about the central policy in the name of economic reform programmes.

Citing a number of anti-employees steps allegedly initiated by the RBI management against its employees, including drastic reduction in the number of employees, their posts as well as new employment opportunities, Mr Ghosh regretted that even after sixty years of independence RBI had no office in any of the seven Northeastern state except one in Guwahati.

" Even efforts are on to further reduce its size by all accounts creating a dangerous precedence", Mr Ghosh said and called for a national movement against the Centre's "draconian policy".

Speaking on the occasion both the Tripura Chief Minister and Mr Sen subscribing to the apprehension of the AIBEA General Secretary alleged that the faulty economic policy had led to huge unemployment and called for its immediate change for the benefit of the common masses.

Referring to the random privatisation efforts of the Centre, both Mr Sen and Mr Sarkar said though the importance of private participation in the growth of industries could not be denied, there was no meaning in their random entry which might throw the future of millions of workforce in jeopardy.

Mr Sarkar also highlighted the alleged lopsided central policy towards the development of Northeast and suggested a total introspection before embarking on the 11th five year plan period from April next year.

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