Dear Officers,

We understand the pain, anxiety and helplessness that thousands of our officers and their families are going through in the present transfer-related uncertainty.

Officers who have completed their tenure and who were expecting to return to their parent zones, home zones or choice zones are today placed in a deeply distressing situation. Many had already planned their lives around the transfer orders issued by the Bank. Some had vacated rented houses. Some had shifted household articles. Some had obtained Transfer Certificates for their children. Some had made arrangements for school admissions at the new station. Some were preparing to join their spouses, aged parents, children, or dependents requiring care. Some officers were hoping that this transfer would finally take them closer to their families after years of separation.

But today, despite transfer orders being issued, officers are unable to know whether to move, wait, return, retain accommodation, seek school admission, or plan the future of their family. Spouses are uncertain. Children are uncertain. Parents are uncertain. Officers themselves are living between two places, two homes, two schools and two futures.

We have been patiently waiting for the Hon’ble Court to take its own course and for the responsible stakeholders to act with the urgency and sensitivity that the situation demands. We are not a party to the case. We had no role in creating this impasse. We have not contributed to this uncertainty in any manner. Yet, when the tears of our officer comrades and their families became too painful to ignore, we were compelled by conscience, duty and responsibility to step in.

As a responsible trade union, we could not remain silent when this collective agony was unfolding before us.

Accordingly, a respectful representation has been submitted before the Registrar General of the Hon’ble High Court of Madras, requesting that the plight of the affected officers and their families may kindly be placed before the Hon’ble Bench dealing with WP No. 16860 of 2026 and WMP No. 18111 of 2026. The representation has been submitted without commenting upon the merits of the pending case. Our only prayer is that the reserved orders may be pronounced at the earliest, since such pronouncement alone can bring clarity and end the present uncertainty.

We have specifically placed before the Hon’ble Court the real human suffering behind this issue — the officer without accommodation, the child waiting for school admission, the spouse waiting for reunion, the aged parent waiting for care, the family living in confusion, and the officer who has served the Bank with sincerity but is now unable to decide the next step in life.

From the very beginning, our consistent stand has been that officers who have completed their term must be given a fair opportunity to go back to their parent zone, home zone or choice zone. We have fought, and will continue to fight, for the rights, dignity and welfare of all officers equally.

This intervention is not an end. It is part of our continuing struggle.
We will pursue every lawful and appropriate course necessary to ensure that officers are treated with fairness, compassion and dignity.

Click the below link to peruse the document

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-xlORO-RGHmJUrZuJv8nyzK9Q5e9_e45/view?usp=drivesdk

With solidarity,

Sreenath Induchoodan
General Secretary
UBOAKS / AIBOC