A severe staff crunch at the branches for managing the front desk operations has compelled the State Bank of India to resume recruitments in the clerical cadre after almost a gap of 20 years.
Banks to also charge 50-100 bps more for a second home.
Nearly 4,000 clerical cadre and staff have sought early retirement from the country's largest commercial bank, State Bank of India.
An interview with Zhan Xiangyang, director general of the world's third largest bank, with a market capitalisation of $183.85 billion.
Inflation based on the wholesale-price-index remained unchanged at 6.46 per cent for the week ended March 17 when compared to the week before. In fact, inflation is now unchanged for the last three weeks.
It is Finance Minister P Chidambaram's meeting with leaders of public sector bank unions that averted the three-day bank strike proposed from March 28.
Funds for capital recast of rural credit societies