GENESIS OF BANK OFFICERS’ TRADE UNION MOVEMENT…….

A RETROSPECT….

MY DEAR FRIENDS,

THE BANK OFFICERS’ MOVEMENT HAS ITS GENESIS IN STATE BANK OF INDIA SINCE LATE 60s IN MUMBAI -- VIZ: STATE BANK OF INDIA OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (SBOA)

 IT’S FOUNDER GENERAL SECRETARY  - COM. L. V. SUBRAMANYAM – POPULARLY AND FONDLY KNOWN AND FONDLY REMEMBERED AS---

 “L V “ IN THE BANKING CIRCLES, WAS THE PIVOTAL PERSONALITY WHO BRAVED AND STRUGGLED TO INITIATE HIS COMMITTED EFFORTS SURMOUNTING SEVERAL ‘HRUDLES’ / ‘CHALLENGES’ POSED AT HIM IN HIS LONG CRUSADE OF LEADING AN ORGANISATION OF BANK OFFICERS AND TO ATTAIN THE STATUS OF ITS ‘RECOGNITION” BY  THE THEN SBI MANAGEMENT WHO  INHERITED  ITS  IMPERIAL CULTURE FROM THE AGE OLD COLONIAL RULE -  “. 

IT’S INDEED! A LONG & FORMIDABLE JOURNEY OF SACRIFICES BY THE OFFICER-FRATERNITY IN STATE BANK OF INDIA WHICH PERCOLATED DOWN THE LAYERS IN THE ENTIRE BANKING INDUSTRY THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE COUNTRY  IN THE  LATER YEARS….

THE SEEDS SO SOWN IN SBI , HAD INDEED,   CAUGHT LIKE A WILD FIRE  TO SPREAD IN  REST OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS INCLUDING  PRIVATE & CO.OP.SECTORS TOO OVER A PERIOD OF TIME , WHICH CULMINATED INTO  COMING  UNDER ONE  UMBRELLA AT THE APEX LEVEL -VIZ:  ALL INDIA CONFEDERATION OF BANK OFFICERS – “AICOBOO” ULTIMATELY. – A MEMORABLE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE !

 AT THIS JUNCTURE, I FONDLY RECOLLECT THAT I WAS IN FACT, ELECTED AS A LOCAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE MEMBER OF “AICOBOO REPRESENTING THEIR ARSIKERE UNIT IN HASSAN DIST.  AFFILIATED TO KARNATAKA STATE UNIT OF AICOBOO -- JUST WITHIN A FEW MONTHS OF MY PROMOTION TO THE OFFICER CADRE IN THE YEAR 1978.

IT STILL CHERISH AS MY PROUD PRIVELEGE - FOR HAVING BEEN ASSOCIATED/ GROOMED MYSELF BY THE LEGENDRY PERSONALITIES IN LATE 70s. -VIZ:-
COMRADES “LV” ,  GODBOLE , (SBI),  & OTHER  STATE UNIT OFFICE-BERERS  OF THE KARNATAKA STATE UNIT-AICOBOO-  Ie;-P S RAJAGOPAL (STATE SECRETARY FROM CANARA BANK);  KS PRAKASHA RAO (VICE PRESIDENT) , VARADA RAJ  & JN DATTATRI (ALL FROM  SYND BK.) AND MANY OTHER STALWARTS FROM VARIOUS BANKS IN KARNATAKA STATE.

 MY IMMENSE THANKS TO COM. LAXMAN RAO GARU WHO FORWARDED ME THE RECENT POST FROM OUR BELOVED COMRADE “LV” .

THE CONTENTS DEPICT THE STRUGGLES WHICH LAID A STRONG INITIAL  FOUNDATION ON WHICH THE  BANK OFFICERS MOVEMENT WAS BUILT  “BRICK BY BRICK”  TO ATTAIN  THE PRESENT STAGE OF A........“FORMIDABLE FORCE TO RECKON WITH “…

THANKS TO COM. “L.V” & OTHER STALWARTS WHO CAUSED TO CONSOLIDATE THE OFFICERS MOVEMENT IN THE BANKING SECTOR.   THE CONTENTS ARE SELF-EXPLECIT.:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12U40uwbIkC-FpFb4aqaOlMTqtajKSMN5/view?usp=sharing

MY DEAR FRIENDS!...  I REJOICE TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL….

With Greetings and Regards 

“|| यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः ||” IS THE ULTIMATE......
I remain - Yours, 
దేవులపల్లి శ్రీనివాస మూర్తి /Devulapalli Srinivasa Murti.                                                                                                                                          JUNE 13, 2020 ;

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