No Salary Account in this bank..!? Surprise order..!
Government employees should not keep a salary account in a particular
bank and if they already have it, the account should be closed. It is noteworthy that this order of the
punjab state
government is about the famous private
bank hdfc Bank. Why should the salary account of the
government employees in
hdfc bank be closed? Now let us see what the
punjab government has announced.
In the order issued by the Water Resources Department of the
punjab State
government, a memo has been sent to the senior officials including the Chief
engineer, and Superintending
engineer of the Water Resources Department. In this, all the employees have been instructed to close the accounts of
hdfc bank immediately. It has been reported that the Principal Secretary of Finance has sent this report to the Secretary of the Department of Water Resources of the
government of
punjab, in which all the employees of the department have been requested to close the accounts of
hdfc bank immediately.
When the
punjab government inquired about the reason for taking such strict action against
hdfc bank, it was said that
hdfc bank does not cooperate with the
punjab Water Resources Department. That is why it is said that it has been decided that no
government employee should keep an account in that bank.
A
government official said that
hdfc bank had given certain guarantees to the mining contractors of the
punjab State Water Resources Department, but
hdfc bank had not followed through on those guarantees, hence the move.
hdfc bank, while explaining the matter, said that it is committed to fulfilling all its obligations as per the terms of the
bank guarantees and the
bank has at all times promptly fulfilled all its obligations in respect of
bank guarantees issued on behalf of the mining contractors.