MY DEAR FRIENDS,
RE: GENESIS OF BANK OFFICERS’ TRADE UNION MOVEMENT…….A RETROSPECT….
(FL)ORAL TRIBUTES TO COM. "L.V" - ( +91 98440 05013 )THE LIVING LEGEND - FATHER OF THE BANK OFFICERS TRADE UNION MOVEMENT
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THE BANK OFFICERS’ MOVEMENT HAS ITS GENESIS IN STATE BANK OF INDIA SINCE LATE 60s IN MUMBAI -- VIZ: ALL INDIA STATE BANK OF INDIA OFFICERS FEDERATION (AISBOF) ARCHITECT OF BANK OFFICERS TRADE UNION MOVEMENT. HE SPEARHEADED THE HISTORIC 17-DAY STRIKE IN JUNE, 1969 WHICH ULTIMATELY DIRECTED THE DESTINY OF THE OFFICES IN STATE BANK OF INDIA. TOOK OVER AS THE FIRST SECRETARY GENERAL OF "AICBOO" ( 1974 - 1985). WIDELY TRAVELLED
COM. L. V. SUBRAMANYAM – POPULARLY AND FONDLY KNOWN AND FONDLY REMEMBERED AS---“L V “ AMONG THE BANKING CIRCLES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
COM. "L.V" 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 ITS TENTICLES IN THE 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.
I 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 (SBI) WHO FORWARDED ME THE RECENT POST FROM OUR BELOVED COMRADE “LV” .
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12U40uwbIkC-FpFb4aqaOlMTqtajKSMN5/view?usp=sharing
AND
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qssvbHrbDsUSTLimt2XT89YQl4PaMa04/view?usp=drivesdk
THE CONTENTS IN THE ABOVE TWO LINKS DEPICTS 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 “…
I AM IMMENSELY THANKFUL TO COM. “L.V”& OTHER STALWARTS VIZ.:
* LATE COM. KARANAM VENKATESWARLU & COM. V MADHAVA RAO OF SBI, - AIBOC:AP.STATE UNIT
* LATE COM.P S L M HARAGOPAL (PNB), AIBOC:AP.STATE UNIT
* COM. A. ANATHAKRISHNA RAO & COM. MADHUSUDHAN RAO OF THE EARSTWHILE SBH, AIBOC:AP.STATE UNIT
* LATE COM. H. R. SHENOY, COM. M. U. PAI, COM. DORAI & ORS. OF THE EARSTWHILE SYNDICATE BANK OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (SBOA)
WHO CAUSED TO CONSOLIDATE THE OFFICERS MOVEMENT IN THE BANKING SECTOR. THE CONTENTS ARE SELF-EXPLECIT.:
MY DEAR FRIENDS!... I REJOICE TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL…. AND I AM QUITE CONFIDENT THAT THE SPIRIT IGNITED BY THE LIVING LEGEND COM. "L .V - AS A TORCH-BEARER" WILL BE CARRIED ON FOR THE CAUSE OF THE FRATERNITY OF BANK WORKFORCE IN GENERAL AND THE OFFICERS IN PARTICULAR.
With Greetings and Regards
“|| यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः ||” IS THE ULTIMATE......
I remain - Yours,
దేవులపల్లి శ్రీనివాస మూర్తి /Devulapalli Srinivasa Murti. MAY 19, 2021 :: VIJAYAWADA 521108
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