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Bengaluru techie blames “Language issues”for relocating office

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Bengaluru techie blames “Language issues”for relocating office

Bengaluru techie blames “Language issues”for relocating office

Bengaluru techie blames “Language issues”for relocating office

Following a row that cropped up after an Bengaluru’s SBI manager refused to speak in Kannada, likewise, plans are afoot for a Bengaluru tech founder to relocate his company to Pune over language issues affecting non-Kannada staff.
According to entrepreneur Kaushik Mukherjee in X, she doesn’t want her. non-Kannada speaking staff to be the next ‘victim’,”

As per him, the decision stemmed from concerns raised by his employees, adding he “agreed to their point of view.

Kaushik Mukherjee’s post was in response to Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya, who earlier shared the video and called the manager’s conduct “not acceptable.”
“If you are doing customer interface work in Karnataka, especially in a sector like banking, it is important to communicate to customers in the language they know,” Surya wrote.
He spoke of his long-standing demand that banks and other public-facing institutions in Karnataka ensure that local-language-speaking staff are posted.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also weighed in on the SBI incident, calling the manager’s behaviour “strongly condemnable” and urging the Union Finance Ministry to implement cultural and language sensitivity training for banking staff nationwide.
The manager has since been transferred, and both the bank and the manager have issued apologies.
The manager, in a statement in Kannada, has reportedly promised to be more sensitive in future dealings with customers.

According to the Kannada Development Authority (KDA), there has been a growing trend of non-Kannadigas being posted in public-facing roles in banks.
This, the KDA says, is creating a disconnect with local citizens who expect services in their mother tongue. As per Reserve Bank of India norms, all banks are mandated to provide services in English, Hindi, and the regional language.

News Edit KV Raman

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