AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): With a total of 6 charters of demands, the members of the bank employee’s federation hold mass demonstration at paradise chowmuhani on Sunday. It is to be mentioned here that the Bank employee’s federation is scheduled to hold mass demonstration in front of the parliament on March 2 during the parliamentary budget session.

Bank Employees Federation of India (BEFI) is a bank trade union consisting of employees of commercial banks, Reserve Bank of India, NABARD, regional rural banks and co-operative banks.

The federation espouses the causes concerning service conditions of bank employees, development of the banking industry, defence of public sector banking in India and exemplary service to customers including the marginal and neglected. It fights for the betterment of the working class as a whole, and for economic and political independence of India in an age of globalization.

BEFI is not affiliated with any Central Trade Union of the country, but it has fraternal relations with Centre of India Trade Unions [CITU]. CITU is the Trade Union front of Communist Party of India (Marxist). BEFI has strong presence in India in provinces like Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Orissa, Tripura, West Bangal etc.

Among the Nationalised Bank employees, BEFI is the second largest organisation. In Regional Rural Banks BEFI affiliates represent the majority workforce.