The signatories to this petition has reached 619. Nice going. But  the number can not be compared to the actual strength of bank pensioners(that is in lakhs). I earnestly hope the trend will improve in coming days. However this should happen immediately as the finance minister is attending to the budget proposal at present and shortly she is going to present the nations budget in this week in parliament.Then she will be free to look into bank pensioners demands. As such by the end of this week all bank pensioners have to sign the petition and show our unity.  The Finance Minister will give her attention if the petition signed by major portion of bank pensioners. so it is now or never for the bank pensioners. So bank pensioners please hurry up and sign the petition on priority. M.Kamalaksha kini..Ex syndicate bank retd 28/02/2011