After Sonu Nigam SBI manager faces transfer over Kannada
After Sonu Nigam
SBI manager faces transfer over Kannada
After Sonu Nigam who faced the heat over Kannada, now it’s the turn off SBI Manager.
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah announced that the SBI manager had been transferred to another branch after she refused to speak in Kannada and disrespected a localite.
SBI manager’s behaviour, who refused to speak in Kannada, as “strongly condemnable”.
She was forced to eat her words and issue a video apology, that too in Kannada. The apology came after a video of her argument with the localite went viral and sparked a row online. to another branch. CM also urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to mandate “language sensitisation training for all bank staffers”.
Taking to his X social media handle, Karnataka CM wrote that the behaviour of the SBI Branch Manager in Surya Nagara, Anekal Taluk, refusing to speak in Kannada & English and showing disregard to citizens, is strongly condemnable,”
Adding they appreciate SBI’s swift action in transferring the official. The matter may now be treated as closed.
However, such incidents must not recur. All bank employees must treat customers with dignity and make every effort to speak in the local language.”
News Edit KV Raman
