HUBLI: With the strike launched by employees of State Bank of India entering the fifth day on Friday, the employees and officials of other public sector banks have expressed solidarity with the striking staff.

Vishwanath Shastri, President of Dharwad District Bank Officers' Association, on Friday met the striking employees in front of the zonal office of the SBI here and expressed his solidarity.

He said the members of the State Bank of India Officers' and Staff Federation spearheaded the agitation in 1992 for the revision of pension schemes of public sector banks.

Now it is the duty of the other public sector banks to take part in the agitation of the SBI staff and officers, he said.

Employees of Life Insurance Corporation of India supported the strike of State Bank of India employees by staging demonstrations before their respective offices on Thursday.

Earlier, Shankar Jalawadi, office-bearer of the State Bank of India Officers Federation, briefed the striking employees about the developments that have taken place so far.

Protest march

P.S. Nayak, regional secretary of the officers' federation, said that the staff and officers of SBI along with members of various representatives of other public sector banks would be holding a protest march on Saturday, which would begin from the Hubli Main Branch of SBI.

Meanwhile, pensioners and few customers were seen outside the branches of SBI in the twin cities on Friday. They had come with the hope that some alternative arrangement might have been made for the benefit of the pensions.

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