Banking Amid Lockdown? Door To Door telegraphindia.com
Chasing down employees, transacting at unusual hours on army demand, and facing fusillades of stone for daring to open a bank branch, bankers in restive Kashmir have been enduring a tumultuous time amid the lockdown while ensuring skeletal operations.
Officials who are from outside the Valley had been pulled out in the days leading to August 5, when Jammu and Kashmir’s special status was revoked and the state brought under a security clampdown.
“For the first three-four days after August 5, our operations were fully shut. Curfew was clamped across the Valley. In the past month, we had just skeletal operations in many parts, while some branches in sensitive areas remain shut,” a senior official with a leading bank, visiting this town from Srinagar, told PTI.
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