The banks are joining the nationwide strike in order to protest against the central government's bid to privatize public sector banks, as well as the Banking Laws Amendment Bill 2021.
A joint forum of central trade unions has called for a nationwide strike on Monday and Tuesday to protest against Central government policies that affect workers.
Various employees' unions have called for a two-day nationwide strike on March 28-29 to oppose the government's move to privatise public sector banks and the Banking Laws Amendment Bill 2021.
Banking services were badly affected in the northeastern states on Thursday as most of the major banks remained closed due to two-day nation-wide employees' strike against bank privatisation.
2-day Bank strike from today: Close to 9 lakh employees of PSBs like State of India (SBI), Punjab National Bank (PNB), Central Bank of India will go on a two-day strike from today.