P. S.
Sundaresan, Former Vice President AIBEA C-52, Manish Complex,
09686301983 COM. 10 Convent Road,
080 22243585 Bangalore-560025
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[email protected] DATE : 20.04.2020
THE LONG MARCH.
Seventy four years ago on this day the AIBEA started on its historical memorable journey
to ensure that bank employees in India, eventually reach the place where they now live
and still continue to march for a better destination where in there will be no trace of
exploitation of any worker anywhere.
The journey was unlike today’s travel under LFC by Air or A/C coach, with our dependents
accompanying us. The travel by our founding fathers and former leaders was hard, harsh
and they faced hostile Anti-Labour Management forces, which created hurdles using
weapons like beatings, sudden transfers, summary dismissals etc. Judicial bias, Anti-
labour legislative measures, Executive interference, The Media, were all used to derail
our journey. In later stages communalism and linguistic chauvinism were utilised and
divisive forces surfaced, to slow down our journey. The couplings of coaches in which
we were travelling were uncoupled by political forces, so that a strong and united train
could not reach the terminus. But we again and again re-coupled ourselves and
proceeded onward with diplomacy, patience, tolerance and adjustments as our tools.
Occasionally some anti-social elements instead of pulling the chain, hanging up to stop
the train used to pull the legs of senior passengers. But they themselves used to be
pushed out of the train. Rumors will be afloat that the train has derailed and will not
proceed further. But all these fake news and rumors will get busted and the train will
chug on with greater speed.
Junction after junction we passed on, like the Silver , Gold, Diamond Jubilee Stations and
now , we have reached the outer signal of our Platinum Station.
At this point let us remember and recall the services rendered by the Engine drivers,
Assistants, Guards, Points men, Linemen, TTI’s and all others, who risking their jobs and
discarding their own career progression opportunities and family comforts, ensured that
we the passengers (Bank Employees) continue to travel on.
There were crews by the dozens. All cannot be named. Their services will be never
forgotten. So, on the seventy fourth birthday and commencement of seventy fifth year
of our journey, we publish here in the names of,
..2..
1) Those who are no more :
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS (1946)
COM. K C NEOGI PRESIDENT
COM. DR. D N SEN VICE PRESIDENT
COM. DR. S BANERJEE VICE PRESIDENT
COM. C R DESAI VICE PRESIDENT
COM. J N SEN VICE PRESIDENT
COM. D M LAHIRI VICE PRESIDENT
COM. R C CHAKRABORTI GENERAL SECRETARY
COM. SUNIL CHOUDRY ASST. SECRETARY
COM. SUDHIN BISWAS ASST. SECRETARY
COM. G S RAO ASST. SECRETARY
COM. B BHATTACHARJEE ASST. SECRETARY
COM. N C MOITRA TREASURER
COM. NARESH CHANDRA PAL ASST. TREASURER
YEAR OF FIRST ELECTION
COM. SOUMENDRA NATH TAGORE 1947
COM. ISHWAR CHAND TIWARI 1947
COM. B P BAJPAI 1947
COM. G N TRIKKANAD 1950
COM. DAYAL DAS KHANNA 1950
COM. P L SYAL 1950
COM. G G MEHTA 1951
COM. H L PARWANA 1951
COM. A SAHA 1951
COM. G P JOSHI 1951
COM. J N MEHROTRA 1951
COM. NAGESHWAR PRASAD 1951
COM. ROSHANLAL MEHROTRA 1951
COM. SUSHIL GHOSH 1951
COM. R K DESAI 1951
COM. ANANT MEHTA 1951
COM. D M DUTT PREM 1951
COM. SATPAL VERMA 1951
COM. TULSI RAM 1951
COM. BENOY ROY 1953
COM. G G DHOLAKIA 1953
COM. SHIVAKUMAR SHARMA 1953
COM. PRABHAT KAR 1953
COM. P R BHATIA 1953
COM. A C KAKKAR 1954
COM. F M PINTO 1954
COM. T P VERMA 1954
COM. P K MENON 1954
COM. NATWARLAL SHAH 1955
COM. S SUBRAMANIAM 1955
COM. K K MUNDAL 1958
COM. B K PORWAL 1958
COM. RAJINDER SYAL 1958
COM. TARAKESHWAR CHAKRABORTI 1960
COM. N SAMPATH 1964
COM. T K V NAIR 1964
COM. H S GREWAL 1968
COM. D P CHADHA 1968
COM. N S PURAO 1973
COM. S SATISH SHARMA 1976
COM. A SUNDARA RAO 1976
COM. P N TIWARI 1976
COM. R D TRIVEDI 1976
COM. SUDESH KUMAR 1980
COM. A V G NAIR 1985
COM. ESHWER RAO 1985
COM. P N SHARMA 1989
COM. L N BHAYAL 1989
COM. RAMANAND 1994
COM. KRISHEN LAL 1996
COM. EKNATH PAI 1996
COM. J VENKAT RAMAN 2000
COM. R VIJAYAKUMAR 2008
2) those who are with us, including those who are now
running the train.
PAST OFFICE BEARERS AND PRESENT TEAM
NONAGENARIANS (90 TO 100 YEARS OF AGE)
1. COM. K J JOSEPH 1955
2. COM. MANORANJAN BOSE 1956
3. COM. P S SUNDARESAN 1968
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4. COM. S D DHOPESHWARKAR 1985
5. COM. K SREENIVASAN 1989
6. COM. R V PANCHAITY 1989
7. COM. KAMAL BHATTACHARJEE 1994
8. COM. I B SHAW 1994
9. COM. H V RAI 1996
10. COM. C H VENKATACHALAM 1996
11. COM. D K CHATTERJEE 1996
12. COM. RAJEN NAGAR 1996
13. COM. P M JOSEPH 2000
14. COM. P D SINGH 2000
15. COM. N K GAUR 2000
16. COM. MAHESH MISHRA 2000
17. COM. LALITH NAGDA 2000
18. COM. LALITHA JOSHI 2000
19. COM. M ANJANI 2004
20. COM. MULYE 2004
21. COM. B S RAMBABU 2004
22. COM. V K SHARMA 2004
23. COM. V K JOHNY 2004
24. COM. S R KANOLKAR 2004
25. COM. E ARUNACHALAM 2004
26. COM. J P SHARMA 2008
27. COM. VISWAS UTAGI 2008
28. COM. D D RUSTOGI 2008
29. COM. P R KARANTH 2008
30. COM. GOUR DAS 2008
31. COM. P P VERGHEESE 2008
32. COM. N VENUGOPAL 2013
33. COM. SOUMITRA TALPATRA 2013
34. COM. M M RAI 2013
35. COM. S K GAUTHAM 2013
36. COM. NANDAKUMAR CHAVAN 2013
37. COM. C D JOSSON 2013
38. COM. JANAK RAWAL 2013
39. COM. MD. NAZAR QURESHI 2017
40. COM. PARTHO CHANDA 2017
41. COM. AJAY MANJREKAR 2017
42. COM. K S KRISHNA 2017
43. COM. D R TULJAPURKAR 2017
44. COM. ANIRUDH KUMAR 2017
45. COM. S D SRINIVASAN 2017
46. COM. C S VENUGOPAL 2017
47. COM. RAJESH BANSAL 2017
