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The All-India Bank Officers’ Confederation (AIBOC) has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to direct the RBI to ensure that the three Cheque Truncation System (CTS) grids – northern, western and southern – remain closed on the respective polling dates so that employees posted there can exercise their franchise.
Writes to CEC
In the absence of specific instructions from the RBI for closure of these three CTS grids, a number of cheque-clearing centres in the country would remain open on the polling dates, thereby depriving employees a chance to exercise their democratic rights, AIBOC General Secretary Soumya Dutta said in a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner.
Any such position would be a contravention of Section 135B of the Representation of People Act 1951, the AIBOC letter highlighted.
Section 135B specifies that persons employed in any business, trade, industrial undertaking or any other establishment and entitled to vote at an election to the House of the People or the Legislative Assembly of a State, shall, on the day of the poll, be granted a paid holiday.
Accordingly, each State declares holiday on the polling date (area-wise) under the Negotiable Instruments Act to facilitate every citizen to cast their vote.
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