New Delhi: Shiv Sena MP Mohan Rawle met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention to end the strike by officers and employees of the State Bank of India, which entered the fourth day on Thursday.
"I request you to kindly consider SBI employees demands sympathetically and settle them without delay," he said in a memorandum to the Prime Minister.
He added that the pension of SBI officers and employees had not been revised since 1992 and 1986 respectively, resulting in "gross anomalies" in the benefits received by SBI employees and those of other public sector banks.
The Shiv Sena MP also made a similar request to Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
SBI employees are on an indefinite strike across the country from April 3.
A Finance Ministry official had admitted yesterday that the bank's operations have been hit by the strike. SBI handles 19 per cent of deposits and 30 per cent of customers in the banking industry through its 9,000 branches.
The Government is reluctant to accept the employees' demand as it fears it would trigger similar demands by employees of other banks.
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