SBI strike paralyses Nagaland govt transactions

Friday, April 7, 2006, 11:34 [IST]

Kohima, Apr 7 (UNI) Most transactions of Nagaland government has been stalled following the ongoing strike in State Bank of India (SBI), which entered its fifth today.

According to official sources here today, the state government could not withdraw money for various developmental activities.

Salaries of its employees also could not be withdrawn.

Talking to UNI, SBI Officers Union's assistant general secretary (north east) Devid Kire expressed unhappiness for the hardship faced by the state govermment employees.

To cnvinience of the state government, SBI branches in the state were kept open on April one and two, he said, blaming the Union government for not heeding to their grievances.

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