About Indian Bank Officers' Association Eastern Zone in Commerce House, 2 Ganesh Chandra Avenue, Kolkata

Indian Bank Officers’ Association Eastern Zone having its office at 2, Ganesh Chandra Avenue, Kolkata 700 013 is the affiliate of All India Indian Bank Officers’ Association having its office at 3, Sripuram 2nd Lane, Royapettah, Chennai – 14. All India Indian Bank Officers’ Association is affiliated to All India Bank Officers’ Confederation & All India Nationalised Bank Officers’ Federation.

Indian Bank Officers’ Association Eastern Zone was registered under Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926, recognised by Management & Govt.. It is the only recognized Officers’ Association of our Bank representing more than 95% of the Officers Community serving in the eastern part of the country comprising of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal besides Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

The trade union movement of Officers in the Banking Industry particularly in our Bank has been unique and eventful. Upto early 1970’s, Bank management used Officers as a tool for perpetuating their interests without sharing any information of the management with the Officers’ community and foisted rigid service conditions coupled with indignities and injustices. Social and cultural barriers were built around the Officers. A trade union was beyond their imagination. Resentment started developing. Officers were feeling suppressed, repressed and depressed. At that crucial juncture during 1976 a few eminent leaders like Com. V S Kaimal, Anil Kumar Jana, P R Balasubramaniam, AVM Shanmugasundaram, S. Ramesh, George Philip and others came forward for formation of a Officers’ Organisation which ultimately came in reality by formation of Indian Bank Officers’ Association Eastern Zone.

Indian Bank Officers’ Association Eastern Zone held its first conference in 1976 and Com P R Balasubramaniam & Com V S Kaimal were elected as President and General Secretary of the Association respectively. A strong demand was raised from Eastern Zone and few other Zones like Bombay and Karnataka to convert the unitary form of organization to a federal structure which came into being in the year 1977.

Indian Bank Officers’ Association Eastern Zone held its first annual conference in 1977 under federal structure and Com. A K Jana & Com. S Ramesh were elected as President and General Secretary of the Association respectively. In the formative years the pioneering role played by Late Com. R S Bhuiya, Late Com. R B Mishra and Com K K Nanda at Orissa, then Com. S K Verma and Com. K K Thakur at Bihar, Com. Dipak Baruah, Com Arun Kumar, Com. Amitabha Kumar at North Eastern region and many others with their excellent leadership quality renforced the organisation throughout the Eastern Zone. The common demands of the officers were crystallized and organization was consolidated on the line of trade union. In 1991, General Body Meeting decided to hold Bi-ennial General Body Meeting instead of Annual General Meeting. In subsequent years Com. Himadri Ghosh, Com. Tapan Kr. Majumder was elected as General Secretary & Com. Biswanath Bardhan as President. On 9th December, 2012, General Body Meeting resolved to hold Tri-ennial General Body Meeting instead of Bi-ennial .

During 1980, Com. Anil Kumar Jana was elected as President of All India Indian Bank Officers’ Association and thus Eastern Zone came into the forefront to organize the entire officers of Indian Bank under the banner of All India Indian Bank Officers’ Association. Com. Anil Kumar Jana also held the office of Officers’ Director of the bank from 1992 – 1998 and secured a rightful position in the affair of managing the bank through representation in the board and by participating in various industrial relation forums at different levels.

All India Indian Bank Officers’ Association, played a very important role in the foundation conference held on 6th October, 1985 at New Delhi which saw the emergence of a strong and vibrant organization - ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS’ CONFEDERATION (AIBOC) representing more than 90% of the supervisory cadre.

During the crisis period of the bank in the year 1995 - 2002 when the existence of the bank was a question at that crucial period, the Indian Bank Officers’ Association Eastern Zone played a vital role for arriving consensus for signing a M.O.U. by sacrificing the existing rights of the employees and officers for getting the required capital assistance from the Government of India. The leading role played by the organisation ultimately saved the Bank from great financial disaster. Even the pivotal role played by the organisation for revival of the bank is a landmark event in the history of the trade union of the country.

Indian Bank Officers’ Association, Eastern Zone took the lead in forging unity in trade union movement and actively associated itself with formation of United Forum of Bank Unions, the rallying point of industry level unions commanding 100% membership of employees and Officers in the industry.

The entire Executive Committee is fully devoted to foster a spirit of co-operation and fraternity amongst the members of the Association & ensure loyalty to co-ordinate the activities of the Officers of the Bank & to ensure improvement of status and position of the Officers besides securing its members fair conditions of life and service, redressing their grievances, ameliorating & improving the working and service conditions of its members besides protecting & safeguarding their interest arising out of their employment in the Bank.