BELONIA, Nov 24 (TIWN): Work at bank branches across South Tripura were hampered during the day due to OFC line cut as BSNL reportedly provides connectivity to all the banks in the region.

The banks lost net connectivity of the day due to the snag, which not only hampered transfer of funds in some cases but quite a few ATMs were also not working.

SDO(T) BSNL South Tripura told TIWN that there was a problem in different parts on the way to Udaipur Sabroom Roadway which led to the link failure. The BSNL team tried to resolve the crisis at the earliest to avoid inconvenience to the general public," he said.

Sources in the banks said this was the first time that such a major breakdown had happened. As banking has become more technology-oriented these days, the link failure brought work to a standstill at many branches. Most of the work had to be finished manually, said a source in one of the PSU banks.