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SME Times News Bureau | 15 Mar, 2021
The small and medium industries in Tamil Nadu have been affected by the
two-day strike called by the banking trade unions leading to the
suspension of banking operations.
ATMs across the state have also
dried up as banks were not working on Saturday and Sunday owing to
holidays and with the two day bank strike commencing on Monday, the
money in the ATMs has not been replenished.
Around 60,000 bank
employees of 160 branches of government owned banks are on a two-day
strike in protest against the privatisation of two more banks by the
Central government.
C.H. Venkatachalam of the All India Bank
Employees Federation (AIBEF) while speaking to IANS said, "Around 5,150
crore transaction will be affected in two days of bank strike in Chennai
alone."
The majority of the small and medium industries have
been hit by the bank strike with these industries relying only on cash
transactions. There are around 1500 small and medium industries in
Ekkaduthangal in Chennai and the staff of these factories are usually
paid in cash.
T.V. Hariharan from Chennai District Small Scale
Industries Association, while speaking to IANS said, "The owners of most
of these small and medium industries are educated only up to 8th or
10th standard and they have to depend on others for online transactions
and hence they are still continuing with cash and cheque transactions."
These SMEs were not able to pay the weekly wages as the banks were closed from Saturday.
M.
Sahasaranamam, owner of Speon factories, a unit at Ambattur industrial
estate specializing in proximity sensors, told IANS," I have more than
fifty five workers and have good orders even during the Covid pandemic.
However, I am worried as my employees are not able to make their weekly
payments owing to the banks closure."
The bank employees
association leaders said that the strike is against the Central
government announcing privatization of two more nationalized banks and
that if these banks are routinely converted to the private sector,
social commitment of these banks will be gone for ever.
Venkatachalam
while speaking to IANS said, "The privatization of the nationalized
banks will affect the social commitment of these banks and hence we are
forced to go on strike. People will understand the necessity of this
strike."
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