REPORT

Foreword

It was Sri M Venugopalan, Deputy General Secretray of AKCBRA, who mooted the idea
that the history of Canara Bank Retirees’ Association should be written and he wanted me to
undertake the work.Since he wanted the book to be released in the 3rd triennial Conference
of AKCBRA being conducted in Kottayam on August 27,2022,
I have written this work in a very short time with the records available with me. There may
be shortcomings in this work which should be pointed out by the readers so that the
contents of this book could be suitably modified and a more perfect edition could be
brought out.
V K M Varma
(Organising Secretary, AIBRF,
First General Secretary, CBRA
First President, AICBRF)
Punniya Priya
Chandrathil Road
Edappally
Cochi
Kerala -682 024
Ph 9349499869, 9995429869
Email : [email protected]

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Birth of Canara Bank Retirees’ Association in Kerala

After signing the Pension Agreement in the year 1993 for the bank employees and officers,
further efforts of bank retirees were aimed to protect the rights and privileges of the bank
retirees and to improve the benefits in the days to come through proper projection of their
demands through negotiations or through bargaining with the authorities concerned. Tofulfil
the above aims, the bank retirees of various banks of the country met in Ahmadabad during
1994 and decided to organise the retirees at all India level. The result was the formation of
AIBRF (All India Bank Retirees’ Federation). From then onwards efforts started in various states
and banksto organise the retireesin their respective areas/banks.

In Canara Bank, the retirees in Hyderabad, Chennai and Madurai started to organise the retirees
in a small way concentrating the activities in their particular areas only. After the
implementation of SVRS scheme,some retirees based in Trivandrum took initiative to organise
the retirees throughout the state of Kerala with the aim of rectifying the deficiencies of the
scheme in an organised manner. They registered their organisation under Societies Act and
filed a suit in the High Court of Kerala with the prayer for the removal of the deficiencies of the
SVRS scheme. Their aim was limited only to remove the deficiencies of the SVRS and hence
enrolled only those retired under the above scheme.

While analysing the above situation prevailing in our bank, a few retirees of Kerala met and
decided to form a retirees’ organisation covering the entire retirees of our bank irrespective of
their cadre while in service, Family Pensioners and Ex Gratia Beneficiaries. By realising the fact
that only few states like Andhra, Tamil Nadu and, in a limited basis, Kerala have taken initiative
to organise the retirees, those who attended the meeting thought that the formation of the
organisation should be on an all India basis so that the retirees from anywhere in our country
can become members of the organisation. On that understanding, an Ad-Hoc Committee was
formed to finalise the Rules and Bye laws for the proposed organisation. The Ad-hoc committee
was mainly headed by Sri Koshy K Rapajappan of Alappuzha as Chairman, Sri V K M Varma of
Ernakulam as Convenor, Sri P Balakrishnan Nair and Sri.K Shanmugham from Kozhikode as Joint
convenors and Sri P K P Iyer of Ernakulam as Treasurer. Theyalso identified a few well known
retirees by considering their role and activities while they were in the serving employees’
organisations,irrespective of their organisational affiliations and cadre spread over the entire
state of Kerala and made them members of the committee.
The ad hoc committee met during the first half of January 2003 and discussed various aspects
for the formation of a retirees’ organisation covering the entire country. A suitable Rules and
Bye laws was also drafted to cater to the needs of the organisation. The ad hoc committee was
also given the responsibilityto identify the retirees from their respective areas and ensure their
participation in the foundation conference of the organisation slated on 09th March 2003 at
Ernakulam. Due to the preliminary hard work and personal contacts of each and every ad hoc
committee member as brand ambassadors and also the realisation of the need for a retirees’
organisation to project the demands and to achieve the same, the turnout for the meeting was
very encouraging and tremendous.

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Foundation Conference of CBRA on 9thMarch,2003

The foundation conference was inaugurated by Sri C G Nambiar, President AKBRF.Sri K
Srinivasan ,General Secretary, AKBRF, Sri P M Joseph, Vice President AIBEA and General
Secretary AKBEF and Sri Bhageeratha Shenoy, Secretary, AKBRF felicitated the conference. The
men and women retirees,irrespective of their cadre while in service and ignoring the
constraints of age and personal issues, attended the conference by undertaking long journey
from far off districts with an exemplary determination and resolve. After passing the Rules and
Bye Laws,the name of the organisation was decided as “ Canara Bank Retirees Association”
with jurisdiction all over the country and as such any retiree from Canara bank irrespective of
their cadre while in service, Family pensioners and Ex Gratia holders and their spouses settled
anywhere in the country could be admitted as the primary member of the organisation. The
birth of the organisation called “ Canara Bank Retirees Association” was declared with
tremendous applause from the participants. The Foundation Conference then elected
unanimously the following as the office bearers and committee members of the organisation.

President Sri K Sreevasudevan Ernakulam
Vice Presidents Sri K Shanmuham Kozhikode
Sri P D Joseph Changanacherry
General Secretary Sri V K M Varma Ernakulam
Secretary Sri Koshy K Rajappan Alapuzha
Joint Secretary Sri N Somanthan Palakkad
Assistant Secretaries Sri R Madhukar Trichur
Sri M Somasundaram Payyannur
Treasurer Sri P K P Iyer Ernakula

Committee Members Sri P Balakrishnan Nair Kozhikode
Sri P A S Nair Ernakulam
Sri P M Mukundan Tellicherry
Sri Benjamin Daniel Ernakulam
Sri A N J Shenoy Cherthala
Sri P K Paul Trichur
Sri Somasundaram Kozhikode
Sri Sheik Ahmed Ernakulam
Sri G Krishnan Nair Alapuzha
Sri P Rajan Ernakulam
Smt P Sarada Tripunithura
Smt May James Ernakulam

The conference appointed Sri K V Matahi from Ernakulam as Auditor. In the first committee
meeting of CBRA the matter of enlarging the membership base was discussed in detail. As a
practical stand, it was decided to contact the retirees within the state of Kerala first and to
identify proper contact persons from other states. In the beginning the concentration was
planned to be in States like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal since the scope for
membership was tremendous in those areas.

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The matter of extending the membership from States other than Kerala was discussed with Sri
A N Balasubramaniam and Sri P Giridharan of Canara Bank Employees Union and sought their
help to identify proper contact persons in other States. At our request,SriBalasubramaniam
took the initiative to discussthe matter in the Central Committee of Canara Bank Employees
Union and a decision was taken there to extend all possible assistance to CBRA to spread the
membership base all over the country. In the meantime,Sri Giridharan made available a CD
obtained from Bank’sHead Office,containing the names and addresses of the retirees covering
the entire country. On verification of the CD,we noticed that the list of retirees was not
arranged in any manner like State wise, Staff Number wise, Cadre wise etc. Hence it was very
difficult to locate or identify any retiree from outside the State of Kerala. To overcome this, we
decided to take a print out of the list for sorting the list state wise and area wise. On
verification of the print out,we noticed that the list contained the names and addresses of
9670 retirees. We took the herculean task of preparing a list state wise and area wise so as to
facilitate us to arrange area wise meetings to contact the retirees and bring them to the fold of
the organisation. More than seven to ten comrades on an average had worked hard day in and
day out, to sort the list and make the whole list state wise and area wise, within a period of one
month. The dedication and determination shown by these retirees was highly commendable.
This grass root level work helped us to move fast in other states by sending welcome letters to
the addresses obtained from the list and also arranging area wise meetings in these areas.
By that time, we were able to contact the retirees within Kerala by arranging retirees meet at
all the district head quarters. The response shown by the retirees and their massive
participation in all the meetings enlarged the membership tremendously and that gave vigour
and courage to extend our mission to other States.

Sri K Srevasudevan, President was former Asst Secretary of CBEU, Secretary of AKBEF and
Editor of “ Labour Life”,the official publication of AKBEF. Myself,General Secretary, was the
Founder Secretary of CBOU and was also among the first nominees of CBOU to the Central
Committee ofCBEU for more than 5 years from 1983 . I was also in the forefront of AIBOA
movement in the state of Kerala and was the first Treasurer of AIBOA State Committee formed
in the state in 1981. The above connections of the above comrades at CBEU, CBOU and AIBOA
at all India level helped the organisation to identify the retirees from different states having
trade union background which resulted in the success of the membership drive.
Along with the activities in Kerala, we identified a few retirees who could contribute for the
growth of the retirees’ movement in view of their past records in the trade union movement
while they were in service. The help and guidance of the leaders of the serving employees and
officers were also sought to achieve our aims.
In the initial stages we identified the following retirees and serving employees/ officers of
different states for the membership growth.

Karnataka -Bangalore region
1) Sri D Seetharama (President of CBEU for more than 25 Years)
2) “ K Shankarappa (Vice President CBEU and CBOU)
3) “ Y Naraya Bhat (Veteran Leader of CBEU and Secretary of SWF)
4) “ Devadas Shenoy (Veteran Leader of CBEU)
5) “ B Haridas Adiga

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6) “ B Govinda Rao

7) “ S C Srinivasan

8) “ Nagesh Rao

9) “ Devadas Rao

10) “ H Kenchappa

11) “ B S Joshi

Karnataka- Mangalore Region

1) Sri. P R Prabhakar Rao (CC member of CBOU)

2) “ A Prabhakar Rao (Trade Union leader)

3) “ K J Pinto

4) “ Tharanathji

5) “ P A Fernandes

6) “ R T Bidi Fom Belgaum

West begal

1) Sri Dipankar Sen (Leader of CBEU)

2) Sri M K Saha (Vice President CBEU)

3) Swapan Kumar Ray Chaudhari

Maharashtra
1) Sri O M Mahindrekar (Leader of CBEU)

2) Sri M Krishnappa (CC Member of CBOU)

3) Sri M Vijaya Sankar

4) Sri D P Dhodapkar President All Bank Retirees federation, Maharashtra and also office

bearer of AIBRF.

5) Sri P P Karantikar Treasurer AIBRF

Delhi

1) Sri A K Bansal ( President CBOU)

Gujarat

1) Sri D C Meghani from Rajkot

2) Sri B G Raithatha of Union Bank of India from Rajkot ( Office Bearer of AIBRF)

3) Sri M N Parikh of Central bank of India from Ahmedabad ( Office Bearer of AIBRF)

Bihar

Sri R P Mishra ( Former Secretary of CBEU)

Ansari

Indore

Sri V G Pande

Manoj Parikh ( Chairman CBEU State Committee MP)

Here I have to make special mention of the help and assistance extended to us by certain office

bearers of AIBRF. During the office bearers meetings of AIBRF,I had a special meetings with

some office bearers and sought their help in enlarging our membership base.

On that basis, I contacted Sri M N Parikh of Central Bank stationed in Ahmedabad, with a

request to extend a helping hand for the membership drive of our association from among the

retirees of Canara Bank stationed in Ahmdabad. For the above purpose we forwarded to him

our welcome letters explaining the need for a strong retirees’ movement in our bank along

with our Application form for enrolment. The addresses of our retirees were also given to him. I

am very happy to mention here that as per my request,Sri Parikh called a meeting exclusively

for the retirees from Ahmedabad and explained the need for a strong retirees’ movement and

requested those who attended the meeting to get enrolled in our association. He reported that

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about 15 retirees attended the special meeting of which 5 gave their membership along with
the subscription amount prescribed. He forwarded the applications to us and assured that he
will follow up the remaining in the days to come.
We contacted Sri B G Raithatha stationed in Rajkot, Gujarat also in the above manner and
sought his help for enroling the retirees from Rajkot and Bhavnagar areas of Gujarat. On
receiving the addresses, he took photo copies of the welcome letter and application form and
forwarded the same to about 70 retirees of our bank with the request to enrol themselves and
return the signed application and the cheque for the subscription amount to him within a cut
off date.That way he collected 32 membership application forms and cheques and forwarded
the same to us. He also requested them in case they cannot submit the application forms
within the prescribed time , the membership forms can be forwarded to the central office of our
association.
We also sought the help ofSri Dhodapkar of Pune and Sri P P Karandir of Mumbai for enlarging
our membership base in Pune and Mumbai and also to coordinate their activities with leaders
like Sri M Krishappa and Sri Mahinderkar.
In West Bengal, Sri Debesh Bhattacharya of United Bank of India was very helpful for our
membership drive in close coordination with our leaders like Sri Dipankar Sen and Sri M K Saha.
To increase our membership base we had conducted 6 meetings in Mangalore, 7 in Bangalore, 2
each in Indore and Kolkata and 1 in Mumbai. At Bangalore we arranged colony wise meetings at
Jaya Nagar Colony and Nagarbhavi Road Colony. Sri Devadas Rao, President of CBEU, initiated
steps and obtained 10 application forms along with the subscription amount and forwarded the
same to us on 02/07/2008. At Nagarbhavi Colony meeting more than 50 retirees attended and
we obtained the membership of 22 on the spot. We arranged a”Retirees Sanghamam” at C S
Sadan, J C Road Bangalore on 01/12/2009 where more than 60 retirees participated. Sri
Devadas Rao, President CBEU, and Sri Khan, Vice President of CBOU, attended the meeting. On
behalf of CBRA,Sri Sreevasudevan, Sri A N Balasubramaniam and myself attended the meeting.
In that meeting,Sri B Haridas Adiga was elected as the Convenor with the aim to take necessary
steps for the conduct of a regional meet at Bangalore. Membership of 16 was obtained from the
meeting.
At Mangalore, we had the first meeting on 29/08/2009 and the regional unit was formed in
Mangalore on 07/11/2009. The participation in the foundation conference of the Regional unit
was more than 100 retirees and on the spot we collected the membership of 51. Representing
CBRA,Sri Sreevasudevan, Sri K Shamugham, Sri P Balakrishnan Nair and myself attended the
meet. The regional committee was formed by electing Sri Tharanathji as President and Sri P R
Prabakar Rao as General Secretary and Sri A Prabhakar Rao as Secretary among other retirees as
other office bearers and committee members.
At Kolkata a “Retirees Sangamam” was arranged on 06/12/2009 at Lake View High
School,Kolkata. 72 retirees participated in the meet. Sri Rajan Nagar President AIBEA, Sri Kamal
Bhattacharya Chairman BPBEA, SriDebesh Bhattacharya, Org secretary AIBRF and Sri Sreebas
Dutta Secretary CBEU attended. Representing CBRA, SrinA N Balasubramaniam and myself
attended the meet. The meeting elected an Ad-hoc committee of 19 members with Sri
Dipenkar Sen as the Convenor to move forward for the formation of the regional unit in West
Bengal. We could enrol 15 members on the spot.
After the Nasik Central Committee meeting of AIBRF,I had gone to Mumbai to meet our retired
colleagues. Sri Krishappa, Sri Mahinderkar and certain other active retired colleagues came
there and had a talk for organising the retirees ofMaharashtra. The formation of the state unit

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took place later in the meeting held at Pune.
Meeting at Indore
When AIBRF arranged the office bearers meet at Indore,I wanted to utilise this opportunity to
have interactionwith the retirees of our bank settled in Indore. We had about 40 addresses of
the retirees of Indore obtained from the CD from Head Office through Sri P Giridharan.
Immediately I called Sri Anil Srivasthava of CBEU at Jabalpur for contact persons of Indore. He
immediately gave the name of Sri Manoj Parikh (He was the chairman of CBEU Madhya
Pradesh retired under SVRS) along with his telephone Number. Sri Anil was the CC member of
CBEU while I was attending the CC meetings of CBEU representing CBOU. Moreover,when I
was transferred to Durg, I got further contacts with Sri Anil. I had a preliminary talk with Sri
Manoj and informed the idea. I invited all the retirees from Indore and Ujjain in the addresses
available with us and called a meeting by showing the name of the hotel as venue where stay
for the office bearers of AIBRF had been arranged. 21 retirees attended the meeting. The
meeting was addressed by Sri S C Jain, Gen Sec AIBRF, Sri S R Kulkarni, President AIBRF and Sri T
M Mathews, Chairman AIBRF.

Second Conference of CBRA on 10/03/2007 at Ernakulam

The meeting was held at AIBEA Hall Ernakulam. Sri C G NambiarPresident of AKBRF

inaugurated the conference.Sri C D Josson Organising Secretary AKBEF and Asst secretary

CBEU, Sri Jacob Mathew, Organising Secretary AIBOA and Deputy General Secretary of CBOU,

Sri K Parasuraman, CCMember,AIBRF and Asst.Secretary, CBRF Chennai, Sri V B Shenoy

Secretary AKBRF, Sri S Ramakrishnan, State Secretary,CBEU and Sri C K Venkiteswaran

Secretary of CBRA Madurai attended the meet. Participation was well over 100.

The election commission of Sri M Venugopalan,Chairman CBEU Kerala, Sri A V Pappachan,

Ernakulam Dist secretary of AIBOA, and Sri Gopalkrishnan Embran Treasurer of AKBRF

conducted the election process of 13 office bearers and 12 committee members. The

following were elected unanimously.

President K Srevasudevan Kochi

Vice Presidents P R R S Iyer Trichur

P A S Nair Kochi

K G P Shenoy Kozhikode

General Secretary V K M Varma Kochi

Secretary K Shanmugham Kozhikode

Joint Secretary N Somanthan Palakkad

Asst Secretaries R Madhukar Trichur

G KrishnanNair Alapuzha

P M Mukundan Tellicherry

P K Viswanathan Kollam

Benjamin Daniel Kochi

Treasurer P K P Iyer Kochi

Committee Members P Balakrishnan Nair Kozhikode

A N Balasubramanium Kannur

P Rajan Kochi

C K Radhakrishnan Palakkad

C Somasundaram Kozhikode

Nelson Cyril Monteroi Kannur

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P S Sheik Ahmed Kochi
P K Paul Trichur
T V Madhavan Palakkad
A N J Shenoy Cherthala
K Prabakar Pattambi
K A Soman Alapuzha

CBRA got the Registration under Charitable Societies Act on 14th October,2009

3rdConference of CBRA on 24/10/2010 at Kozhikode

The meeting was held at Hotel Alakapuri Auditorium ( Com D Seetharama Nagar)

The 3rd conference of our association witnessed tremendous turnout of our retirees as delegates

from different states like Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Kerala. More than 250

delegates attended the meeting unmindful of advanced age. More than 40 delegates

participated from outside the State. Sri C D Josson, General secretary All Kerala Bank

Employees’ Federation inaugurated the conference. Sri T M Mathews, Chairman AIBRF, Sri K

Srinivasan, General Secretary AKBRF, Sri N S K Nair, General Secretary CBSVRS retirees’ Welfare

Association and Sri M D Gopinath, Secretary AIBOA State Committee attended the meeting.

The delegate’s session was inaugurated by Sri S V Srinivasan, General Secretary AICBRF. Sri S

Ramakrishnan, State Secretary,CBEU promised unconditional support for the retirees’

movement under CBRA.

To have better functioning, the number of office bearers was increased from 13 to 20 and

committee members from 12 to 15 for which the required Bye- Law amendment was passed

unanimously.

Thereafter myself , General Secretary proposed the following names for the office bearers and

committee members posts.

President K Sreevasudevan Kochi

Vice Presidents A N Balasubramaniam Kannur

K G P Shenoi Kozhikode

P R R S Iyer Trichur

Dipankar Sen Kolkata

K N Surendran Palakkad

General Secretary V K M Varma Kochi

Secretaries K Shanmugham Kozhikode

M Krishnappa Mumbai

B S Joshi Bangalore

N Somanathan Palakkad

A P Ravindranath Kozhikode

R P Mishra Patna

Org. Secretaries A Prabhakara Rao Mangalore

Hariprasadan Nair Trivandrum

Dilip C Meghani Rajkot, Gujarat

R Ramachandran Kozhikode

G Krishnan Nair Alapuzha

Treasurer Reetha Balachandran Kochi

Committee Members P Balakrishnan Nair Kozhikode

B Haridas Adiga Bangalore

R Madhukar Trichur

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V Gopinathan Nair Trivandrum
R T Bidi Belgaum
M N Asokan Kannur
P K Bhaskaran Kozhikode
A C Kamble Mumbai
U N Ravi Kochi
T V Madhavan Palakkad
A P Thomas Thodupuzha
C K Radhakrishnan Palakkad
Nelson Cyril Monterio Kannur
R Bhaskara Prabhu Payyannur
Manikutty George Kottayam

4th Conference of CBRA on 24/10/2011 at Ernakulam

The meeting was held at AIBEA Hall Ernakulam. More than 230 delegates attended the meet
including the delegates from outside the state.
Sri S V Srinivasan, General Secretary AIBRF inaugurated the conference.
Sri K Srinivasan, General Secretary AKBRF, Sri C D Josson, General Secretary AKBEF, Sri S
Ramakrishnan , State Secretary,CBEU and Sri N B Kishore Kumar, President AIBOA Kerala State
Committee offered felicitations.

The following Bye-Law amendment was proposed for adoption

Existing Secretaries 6 Nos Proposed One Deputy General Secretary

Five Secretaries

The proposal was adopted by the house.

The following were elected as the office bearers and committee members.

President A P Ravindranath Kozhikode

Vice Presidents A N Balasubramaniam Kannur

K G P Shenoi Kozhikode

P R R S Iyer Trichur

P Giridharan Trivandum

K N Surendran Palakkad

V Sudeesan Kollam

General Secretary V K M Varma Kochi

Deputy General Secretary M Venugopalan Palakkad

Secretaries K Shanmugham Kozhikode

A V Pappachan Kochi

N Somanathan Palakkad

S K Chatterji Jamshedpur

R P Mishra Patna

Org. Secretaries Hariprasadan Nair Trivandrum

Dilip C Meghani Rajkot, Gujarat

R Ramachandran Kozhikode

G Krishnan Nair Alapuzha

P V Narayan Malappuram

Treasurer Reetha Balachandran Kochi

Committee Members P Balakrishnan Nair Kozhikode

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K Sreevaudevan Kochi
R Madhukar Trichur
C K Rajeevan Trivandrum
V Gopinthan Nair Trivandrum
M N Asokan Kannur
P K Bhaskaran Kozhikode
K S Unni Palakkad
U N Ravi Kochi
T V Madhavan Palakkad
A P Thomas Thodupuzha
T C Prabakaran Kozhikode
K Velayudhan
R Kalpetta
K P Chandy
U Dayavathi Kottayam
Com K Raghavan from Kochi was appointed as the auditor. Trichur

5th Conference of CBRA on 14th October,2012 at Palakkad

The 5th Conference was held on 14th October,2012 at M Velayudhan Nagar ( Fine Arts Society Hall,
Tharekkad, Palakkad). More than 250 participated in the meeting. Sri S V Srinivasan, General
Secretray AICBRF inaugurated. Sri S Ramakrishnan Secretary CBEU, Sri P Mohandas,Joint
Secretary AKBRF, Palakkad DC,Sri B Ramprakasm, Dist Secretray Palakkad AKBEF, Sri Naveen of
CBOA,also greeted the conference. Smt.K Mallika, President AKBEF and Sri S D Sunder Raj, Vice
President AKBRF also attended the meeting.
The conference elected the following as office bearers and committee members.

President A P Ravindranath Kozhikode
Vice Presidents A N Balasubramaniam Kannur
K G P Shenoi Kozhikode
General Secretary P R R S Iyer Trichur
Deputy General Secretary P Giridharan Trivandum
Secretaries K N Surendran Palakkad
V Sudeesan Kollam
Org. Secretaries V K M Varma Kochi
M Venugopalan Palakkad
Treasurer K Shanmugham Kozhikode
A V Pappachan Kochi
N Somanathan Palakkad
S K Chatterji Jamshedpur
R P Mishra Patna
Hariprasadan Nair Trivandrum
R Ramachandran Kozhikode
G Krishnan Nair Alapuzha
P V Narayan Malappuram
Reetha Balachandran Kochi

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Committee Members P Balakrishnan Nair Kozhikode
K Sreevaudevan Kochi
R Madhukar Trichur
C K Rajeevan Trivandrum
V Gopinthan Nair Trivandrum
M N Asokan Kannur
P K Bhaskaran Kozhikode
K S Unni Palakkad
U N Ravi Kochi
T V Madhavan Palakkad
A P Thomas Thodupuzha
T C Prabakaran Kozhikode
P Rajasekharan
U Dayavathi Badagara
Trichur

6th Conference of CBRA on 22nd Septmber,2013 at Trichur
The 6th meeting was held on 22nd September at Pearl Residency, Trichur. The meeting was
addressed by Sri Therambil Ramakrishnan, MLA from Trichur and also the chairman of the
reception committee. The meeting was presided by our president Sri A P aveendranath . The
conference was inaugurated by Sri S V Srinivasan, General Secretary, AICBRF. Sri N D
Nandakumar , Secretary AKBRF, Sri S Ramakrishnan, Secretary CBEU, Sri N B Kishore Kumar,
Deputy general secretaryCBOU and Sri E John Joseph, Secretary AKBRF attended meeting and
offered the greetings. The report was presented by Sri V K M Varma and after discussion
adopted unanimously.

The amendment to the bye laws viz enhancing the Life member Subscription from Rs 2500/-to

Rs 3000/- was moved by Com Varma and seconded by Com P R R S Iyer and approved

unanimously.

The following were elected as Office Bearers and Committee members.

President A P Ravindranath Kozhikode

Vice Presidents A N Balasubramaniam Kannur

V K M Varma Kochi

K Shanmugham Kozhikode

P R R S Iyer richur

General Secretary K V Anathakrishnan Palakkad
Deputy General Secretary P Giridharran Trivandrum
Secretaries M Venugopalan Palakkad
P K Bhaskaran Kozhikode
Org. Secretaries A V Pappachan Ernakulam
N Somanathan Palakkad
V Sudeesan Kollam
S K Chattrrji Jamshedpur
R P Mishra Patna
P V Narayanan Malappuram
G Krishnan Nair Alapuzha
R Ramachandran Kozhikode

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Treasurer Varghese Mathew Kottayam
Committee Members Irvin Mascarenhas Kollam
T V Madhavan Palakkad
P Balakrishnan Nair Kozhikode
A P Thomas Idukki
V Dayavathi Trichur
A K Sobha Kozhikode
D Madhusoodanan Trivandrum
K Raghavan Ernakulam
T C Prabhakaran Wynad
C K Rajeevan Trivandrum
M N Asokan Kannur
L Renganathan Alapuzha
U N Ravi Kochi
P Rajasekharan Kozhikode
K K John Ernakulam
N A George Kottayam
S Balakrishnan Trichur

7th conference was held on 18th Septmber,2014 at Trivandrum

The Seventh conference of CBRA was held at Royal Hotel Auditorium, Pattam Trivandrum on

18th September, 2014. The conference was inaugurated by Sri K R Manoharan, Deputy General

Secretary, AICBRF. Sri T M Mathews veteran leader of All India Bank Retirees’ Federation, Sri C

Gopinathan Nair, Vice President AKBRF and Sri C D Josson General Secretary, AKBEF also

attended the meeting and offered their felicitations. The report presented by Sri M

Venugopalan was adopted after discussion by the members present.

The following were elected as the Office Bearers and CC members.

President A P Ravindranathan

Vice Presidents A N Balasubramaniam

K Shanmugham

P R R S Iyer

K V Anatha Krishnan

V Sudesan

A P Thomas

General Secretary M Venugopalan

Deputy General Secretary V K M Varma

Secretaries N Somanathan

C K Rajeevan

R Ramachandran

S K Chatterji

G Krishnan Nair

Organising Secretaries K K John

P V Narayanan

N A George

T C Prabhakaran

T O Chandran Kutty

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Treasurer P K Bhaskaran
CC Members P Balakrishnan Nair
K Sreevasudevan
Auditor V Dayavathi
A K Sobha
G Narmada
D Madhusoodanan
K Raghavan
M N Asokan
L Renganathan
U N Ravi
S Balakrishnan
P Rajaskharan
Irvin Mascarenhas
R Madhukar
M Ramankuty
P Krishnan
K Kunhappan

Moreover Sri P Giridharan,Org Secretary, AICBRF, Sri A V Pappachan and Sri B Sasidharan Pillai
CC Members of AICBRF were also part of the Central Committee.

CBRA becomes AKCBRA and getsthe Registration under Trade Union Act on 22nd August, 2015.
This became possible by the untiring efforts of Sri A N Balasubramaniam, Former General
Secretary of CBEU.
First meeting of AKCBRA on 29/09/2015 at Trichur

The first meeting of AKCBRA, after Registration Under Trade Union Act, was held on 29/09/2015

at Trichur. The meeting was inaugurated by Sri C N Jayadevan, the Honourable Member of

Parliament from Trichur. Sri B Venkat Rao , Organising Secretary AICBRF ,Sri S Ramakrishnan,

Deputy General Secretary CBEU, Sri M D Gopinath, Secretary CBOU and Sri M P Paul, Dist

Secretary AKBRF, spoke. The report of the activities of the association was presented by the

General Secretary SriM Venugopalan and after discussion adopted unanimously.Sri

Balasubramaniam,Secretary AICBRF from Erode and Sri V K M Varma President AICBRF also

spoke in the meeting.

The following were elected as the office bearers and committee members.

President V K M Varma Kochi

Vice Presidents K K Radhakrishnan Kannur
P R R S Iyer Trichur
General Secretary C K Rajeevan Trivandum
Deputy General Secretary T O Chandrankutty Palakkad
Secretaries V Sudeesan Kollam
A P Ravindranath Kozhikode
M Venugopalan Palakkad
N Somanathan Palakkad
R Ramachndran Kozhikode

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Organising Secretaries K K John Ernakulam
T P Balachandran Palakkad
Treasurer G Krishnan Nair Alapuzha
Asst Treasurer K Raghavan Ernakulam
CC Members N A George Kottayam
T C Prabhakaran Wynad
P Krishnan Kasaragod
P V Narayanan Malappuram
P K Bhaskaran Kozhikode
A K Sobha Kozhikode
P Balakrishnan Nair Kozhikode
K Sreevasudevan Ernakulam
A N Balasubramaniam Kannur
G Narmada Trivandrum
D Madhusoodanan Trivandrum
N K Vijayalakshmi Trivandrum
L Renganathan Alapuzha
U N Ravi Kochi
S Balakrishnan Trichur
A P Thomas Thodupuzha
M Ramankutty Malappuram
V Dayavathi Trichur
P Rajasekharan Kozhikode
K M Thampy Ernakulam

AKCBRA Special General Body meeting on 20th September,2016 at Kozhikode

The special general body meeting was held at Kozhikode on 20t September, 2016 to discuss
various organisational matters. The meeting was inaugurated by
Sri M K Raghavan, Hounarable Member of Parliament from Kozhikode. Sri C D Josson, State
Convenor UFBU and Sri K V Soori, District Secretary AKBEF also attended the meeting and
offered their greetings.

The highlight of the conference was the formation of Women’s wing for the retirees. This was

the first Women’s’Wing formed under AICBRF. The Women’s Wing Session was inaugurated by

Smt Meera Dharsakh, Deputy Mayor of the Corporation of Kozhikode. In her speech she said

that this is a step forward, of course the right step, by AKCBRA to take the lead in forming the

Women’s Wing. The meeting elected 8 Office Bearers and 11 committee members for the

Women’s Wing.

The list is as under:

President M Sarala Devi, Ernakulam

Vice President K K Rajalakshmi, Trichur

Reetha Balachandran, Ernakulam

V R Vasantha, Palakkad

Secretary P K Premavally, Kozhiode

Joint Secretary N K Vijayalakshmi, Trivandrum

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I G Sarasam, Ernakulam
Kottayam
Somavally,

CC Members Valasala menon

N K Ponnamma

T Sarojini

K K Lalitha

M Santha

Malahy C P

Rajam Babu

Premalatha Nair

K V Prabhavathi

Sathi Devi

Soumini

2nd conference of AKCBRA held on 3rd April,2019 at Kannur

The second conference AKCBRA was held on 3rd April 2019 at Kannur. The venue of the
conference was Hotel Royal Omars. Sri S V Srinivasan, General Secretary AICBRF inaugurated
the conference. The conference greeted Sri K Srinivasan on his election as the Chairman of
AIBRF and he was garlanded by Sri P R R S Iyer. The Chief Guest of the Conference, Sri Baby
Castro, Labour Officer of Kannur District in his speech reminded that the organised trade unions
should have a role to improve the service conditions of the workers in unorganised sector. He
also narrated the need of the trade unions and rights and responsibilities of the workers in
general.
Due to the workload in connection with the annual closing Smt G K Maya, General Manager
could not attend the meeting and hence deputed the Asst General Manager Sri Nandakumar to
greet the conference. Sri B Ramprakah, Secretary CBEU and Sri H Vinod Kumar, General
Secretary CBOU greeted and offered their organisational support in achieving the demands of
the retirees.
The delegate session was inaugurated by Sri B Venkat Rao, Secretary AICBRF and also the
Organising Secretary of AIBRF. In his address,Sri Venakat Rao informed the liaison work at our
Head office at Bangalore and also the follow up of the insurance claims with the TPA office.
The report of the activities of the organisation was presented by General secretary
Sri A P Ravindranathan.
Smt Sarala devi, Chair persons of Women’s Wing&Sri A N Balasubramaniam,Vice President,
AICBRF also adressed the meeting. The following delegates participated in the discussions on
the Report.

I G Sarasam- Ernakulam, C Sasi- Kollam, N S Vijaya kumar- Trichur, V T Achuthan Kutty-
Palakkad, P Vijayan- Kannur, C H Ummar- Malappuram, Mathew Joseph – Kottayam.

The amendment of enhancing the subscription rates as under are presented and approved.

Life Subscription from Rs 3000/- to Rs 5000/-

Annual subscription from Rs 300/- to Rs 600/-

The following were elected as the Office Bearers and CC members.

President P R R S Iyer

Vice Presidents M Sarala devi

K K Rahakrishnan

V Sudeesan

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C K Rajeevan

T O Chandrankutty

N S K Nair

T C Prabhakaran

General Secretary A P Ravindranathan

Deputy General Secretary M Venugopalan

Secretaries T P Balachandran

N Somanathan

K K John

G Krishnan Nair

R Ramachandran

Organising Secretaries P V Narayanan

K Raghavan

P U Kurian

V Ravindran

V Madhu

M N Asokan

Treasurer P K Bhaskaran Nair

Asst Treasurer A K Sobha

Committee Members S Balakrishnan

G Narmada

Velayudhan Pillai

K D Baby

N K Vijayalakshmi

K M Thampy

D Madhusoodanan

P K Mohana Varma

K K Rajalakshmi

P Ravindran

P Rajasekharan

M Ramankutty

E Gangadharan

P A S Nair

R Gopalkrishnan

C Sasi

Meeting also decided to call the following as Special Invitees to the CC meetings of AKCBRA

K Sreevaudevan

V K M Varma

A N Balasubramaniam

P Giridharan

P Balakrishnan Nair

K Shanmugham

Organising Meets at various States

Meeting at Kolkata

The retirees’ meet was held on 6th December,2009 at Lake View High School, Kolkata. More than

65 retirees participated. The meeting was attended by Sri Rajan Nagar, President AIBEA, Sri

Kamal Bhattacharya, Chairman BPBEA, SriDebesh Bhattacharya, Org sec AIBRF and Sri Sreebas

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Dutta, Scretary CBEU. An ad-hoc committee was formed on that day with SriDeepankar Sen as
the Convenor. Afterwards on 3rdof March 2010 the state unit was formed for West Bengal. In
both the meetings Sri A N Balasubramaniam and myself participated.
Meeting at Jamshedpur
Our members at Jamshepur took the initiative and arranged a bank retiree’s meet at
Jamshedpur on 4th March 2012. More than 50 retirees representing from different banks
attended the meeting arranged at our Bistapur branch premises. Sri A P Ravindranath and
myself attended the meeting. The whole arrangement for such a meeting was iunder the
initiative of our Secretary S K Chatterji.
Bihar
Our members from the state of Bihar were conducting regular meetings under the leadership of
Sri R P Mishra, our Secretary from Patna and were taking all the initiative for the consolidation of
our retirees.
State Unit at Gujarat
The formation of Gujarat state unit took place on 6th June 2012 at Ahmedabad.
Sri S V Srinivasn General Secretary of AICBRF inaugurated the conference.Sri S V Dave, Vice
President of AIBRF also attended the meet. The meeting elected Sri Atual Anjaria as President
and Sri Dushyant Trivedi as Secretary.

State Unit at Uttar Pradesh
The state unit for UP was formed during the first half of 2012 by convening a meeting of our
retirees at Lucknow. Sri A K Bansal and Sri S V Srinivasan Chairman and General Secretary of
AICBRF attended the meeting. Sri D D Rustogi General Secretary of CBEU and Sri Pratap Shukla
Organising Secretary AIBRF also attended and greeted the conference. The meeting elected Sri
M C Katiyar as President and Sri R K Dhawan as Secretary.
Karnataka
The Karnataka State unit of AICBRF was formed in a meeting held on 10th May 2011.
The foundation conference of AICBRF was held at Chennai on 20th December 2009.
The foundation conference was inaugurated by Sri S R Kulakarni, President,AIBRF. Sri R J
Sreedharan, General secretary AIBOA, Sri N Sampath, President TNBEF, Sri T M Mathews,
Chairman AIBRF,COM B Ramji, Vice Preident, AIBRF,Sri P R Rajagopal, General Secretary CBOU
and Smt Lalitha Lakshmanan, General Manager, Canara Bank,CO, Chennai attended and offered
their felicitations.
The Delegates session was inaugurated by Sri Luke Bhaskaran, Deputy General Secretary
CBEU.Sri C H Venkitachalam, General Secretary AIBEA attended the meeting and explained the
need for strong retiree’ movement in the banking scenario and offered all out support of his
AIBEA in the days to come.

At the time of the foundation conference the membership position was as under

1) CBRA Hyderabad 225

2) CBRA Madurai 161

3) CBRA Chennai 561

4) CBSVWA Kerala 225

5) CBRA of Kerala 1036

Total 2208

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The State wise membership position of CBRA of Kerala, which was an all India organisation,was

as under.

Bihar 17

Chathisghat 1

Delhi 27

Gujarat 34

Karnataka 247

Kerala 527

Maharashtra 75

West Bengal 108

TOTAL 1036

The conference elected the following Office Bearers and CC members.

Chairman Open Open

President Kerala V K M Varma

Vice President Tamil Nadu T T Raman

-do- Delhi Open

- do- Kerala A N Balasubramaniam

-do- Andhra Y V Subba Rao

General Secretary Tamil Nadu S V Srinivasan

Joint General Secretary Kerala K Sreevasudvan

Secretary Maharashtra M Krishappa

-do- Karnataka K Nagaraj

-do- Kerala H D Raveendra

-do- Tamil Nadu M Balasubranmanian

-do- West Bengal Dipankar Sen

Organising Secretary Karnataka P R Prabhakar Rao

-do- Tamil Nadu R Sudalaimuthu

-do- Tamil Nadu C R Venkiteswaran

-do- Kerala K Shanmugham

-do- Kerala M Venugopalan

-do- Kerala S Madhusoodanan Pillai

-do- Bihar R P Mishra

Treasurer Tamil Nadu A B Kasturi Rangan

Assistant Treasurer Tamil Nadu P Dhanaram

Central Committee Member Tamil Nadu

K Parasuraman

-do- Tamil Nadu A S Krishnan

-do- Tamil Nadu R Peumal

-do- Tamil Nadu E Ponnambalam Pillai

-do- Tamil Nadu S Agoram

-do- Tamil Nadu T V Alwan

-do- Karnataka B Haidas Adiga

-do- Karnataka Mohan Upadhya

-do- Karnataka R T Bidi

-do- Kerala N S K Nair

-do- Kerala K Marikkar Pillai

-do- Kerala K N Balakrishnan

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-do- Andhra Open

-do- Andhra Open

-do- Andhra Open

-do- Maharashtra Open

-do- West Bengal Swapan Roy Choudary

-do- West Bengal M K Saha

-do- Delhi Open

-do- Kerala K Hariprasadan Nair

-do- Bihar B K Sinha

-do- Open Open

-do Open Open

As per the decisions of AICBRF, statewise units were to be formed for better contacts and for

the growth of the membership. True to the real spirit of the above decision,up to date

membership ofCBRAof Kerala was transferred to the respective states when the state units

were formed. The life subscription amount remitted to CBRA by the members from the

concerned states was also transferred to the concerned state units along with the applications

obtained from the concerned. In spite of several attempts the State Unit of Jharkhand did not

materialise and hence the life subscription amount collected from the retirees from Jharkhand

was transferred to the central office of AICBRF for further follow up.

The details of the membershiptransferred to the respective states was as under.

State Membership Transferred

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Karnataka 247

Maharashtra 112

West Bengal 108

Jharkhand 69

Gujarat 36

Delhi 27

Bihar 23

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Tota 622

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After the formation of the all India federation,CBRA devoted more concentration for the
growth of the membership in the state of Kerala. Aiming to enlarge the membership, it was
decided for the formation of Regional Committees so as to concentrate the works region wise
and to make frequent contacts with the retirees by calling region wise meetings and to explain
the need and necessity of a retirees’ movement and therebyenrolling more as members of
CBRA. This step evoked good response and region wise committees were formed with the
office bearers and committee members required for functioning in their respective areas.
Since CBRA was registered under Charitable Societies Act during 2009,annual meetings were
called to meet the obligations of the registration. This annual meets gave the occasion for
retirees to meet in person and to exchange their views. The responses of the regional meets
and annual meets were very encouraging and the participation of retirees in large numbers
finally reflected in the growth of membership throughout the state.
Formation of the Regional units in Kerala

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Within a short period of time we established the following regional committees to have better
co-ordinated functioning of the organisation.

For the districts of Ernakulam, Kottayam and Districts
The regional meet was held on27/08/2011 and a team of 9 members with Sri M V Babu George as
Chairman and Sri A V Pappachan as the Regional Secretary.
Afterwards the Regional Committee met on 26/11/2016 and rconstituted the committee with
Sri C Mohanakrishnan as Chairman and Sri M Mohanan as the Regional Secretary.

For the districts of Kozhikode, Malappuram and Wynad
The meeting was called on 28.06.2011 and elected a team of 7 members with Sri M Ramankutty
of Malapuram as Chairman and Sri T C Prabhakaran of Wyanad as the Regional Secretary.

For the district of Trivandrum
The Regional level meeting was called on 30/08/2011 and elected a team of 5 members with Sri
N C Nair as Chairman and Sri C K Rajeevan as Regional Secretary.

For the district of Palakkad
The meeting arranged on14/11/2011 and elected a team of 11 members with Sri K V Anatha
Krishnan as Chairman and Sri K S Unni as Regional Secretary.

For the district of Trichur
The meeting held on 19/10/2011 and elected a team of 7 members with Smt V Dayavathi as the
chair person and Sri R Madhukar as the Regional Secretary.

For the district of Alapuzha
The meeting was called for on 31/08/2011 and elected a team of 7 members with Sri Koshy K
Rajappan as the Chairman and Sri L Renganathan as the Regional Secretary.

For the district of Kollam
The Regional meet was held on 31/08/2011 and elected a team of 7 members with Sri B
Sasidharan Pillai as the Chairman and Sri Irvin Mascarenhas as the Regional Secretary.

For the Districts of Kannur and Kasargode
The meeting was held on4th August 2012 and elected a team of 10 members with Sri P C
Sumithran as the Chairman and Sri M N Asokan as the Regional Secretary.
After wards Districts of Malappuam, Wynad, Kasargode and Kottayam formed separate
Regional committees. Kottayam Regional committee is also taking care of the retirees in
Pathanamthitta District. The members from Idukki district are part of Ernakulam committee
The above regional committees met subsequently and elected new teams to take forward the
mission of a strong retirees’ movement in our Bank.

The principal officer bearers of the Regional Committees before reorganisation on the eve of 3rd

triennial conference of AKCBRA are as under.

Region Chairman Secretary

Alapuzha Koshy K Rajappan L Renganathan

Kozhikode P V Mitter A K Sobha

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Ernakulam N Venugopal M Mohanan

Kannur P S Sumithran M N Asokan

Kasargode K P Radhakrishnan Nair P Krishnan

Kollam N Muraleeganan M Sreekumar

Kottayam M Velayudhan Pillai P U Kurian

Malappuram M Ramankutty K A Ravindran

Palakkad K V Anatha Krishnan K S Unni

Trichur P N Sivan T P Balachandran

Trivandrum K Ramachandran Nair V Madhu

Wynad K K Chandran T C Prabhakaran

Afterwards CBRA decided to obtain the registration with Trade Union Act and the same

materialised during Sept 2015 and thereby changed the name of the association to All Kerala

Canara Bank Retirees’ Association (AKCBRA).

Grievances Redressal Cell Meetings

As per the decision taken in the Parliamentary committee, IBA instructed the member banks to

establish the Grievances Cells in all banks and to hold periodical discussions with the

representatives of the retirees’ associations regarding their issues and to redress the same at

the earliest.In our Bank,while introducing the GRC Meetings,it was stipulated that only

registered organisations with a membership of 1000 will be invited to participate.Since the

registration process of AICBRF was not completed, we feared that AICBRF may go

unrepresented in the GRC meetings.There were also attempts from certain quarters to deny

AICBRF representation in Grievances Cell meetings, which was stalled due to CBEU General

Secretary Com Rustogi’s intervention .Anyhow to ensure that AICBRF gets representation in

GRCM,since our CBRA was meeting Bank’ stipulations, we applied for representation and we

were invited. Happily, AICBRF also got invited. So AICBRF, our CBRA and the Officers’

organisation were invited to GRCMs with only one representative from each organisation.We

were requesting for two representatives from each organisation. But Bank refused for quite a

long time. So to get the benefit of two from AICBRF getting representation, we also continued

to participate. That way ComS V Sreenivasan as General Secretary and myself as President of

AICBRF continued to participate though on record we were representing AICBRF and CBRA of

Kerala. Now, after many years, Bank has agreed for two representatives from each organisation

and Sri. S V Srinivasan,General Secretary of AICBRF and Sri V Venkat Rao, Liaison Secretary are

attending the GRCM meetings.Even though many issues raised by us in the GRCM are

unresolved, many issues could be settled satisfactorily.

AIBRF General Body Conference at Chennai

The General body conference of AIBRF was held at Chennai from 12th to 14th December,2008.At

that time the total membership strength of AIBRF was 20904 from 36 affiliated units. The

combined strength of the three organisations affiliated to AIBRF from Canara bank at that time

was 1048.The details are as under.

Canara Bank Retirees Association,Madurai 116

Canara Bank Retirees Forum, Chennai 405

Canara Bank Retirees Association, Kerala 527

Total 1048

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While going through the membership positionof AIBRF affiliates, it was noticed that the
combined strength of 1048 of Canara Bank Retirees’ organisations placed us in the 7th position
out of the 36 affiliated units of AIBRF.When CBRA from Kerala sought AIBRF affiliation, there
was objection from certain quarters that this will amount to affiliation for more than one
organisation from a Bank.Sri S R Kulkarni, the then General Secretary of AIBRF enquired the
matter with me and I gave him the assurance that within a short period we will form our All
India federation of the retirees in Canara bank and all the three units affiliated to AIBRF at that
time,will be part of our federation. While I was giving the above assurance all the three General
Secretaries of the above three associations from our Bank were with me. Since the retirees in
Canara Bank required the recognition from AIBRF, we requested to allot one office bearer post
to Canara Bank .Sri Kasturi Rengan, General Secretary Canara Bank Retirees Forum Chennai
suggested my name for the office bearer post considering our combined strength. As such I was
elected as the Org Secretary of AIBRF, the first Office bearer of AIBRF from Canara Bank and
continue in that position. Since all the three units were aware of my assurance given to Sri S R
Kulkarni, the ad hoc committee decided to invite him to inaugurate the foundation conference
of AICBRF,even though his position in AIBRF had changed from General Secretray to President
of AIBRF at that time.

1St Conference of AICBRF at Bangalore on 26th February 2013
The 1stConference of AICBRF was held at Hudson Memorial Church Community centre
Bengaluru on 26th February 2013. A rally was taken out from Town Hall Bengaluru , opposite to
our Bank’s Head office at 9.30 AM. Sri S C Jain, General Secretary,AIBRF inaugurated the
conference. The conference was for a day. More than 850 participated. Sri L Sanjeev Pai, Patron
of the Reception Committee, Sri. K ViswanahaNaik, General Secretary, AIBRF – Karnataka State
Committee and Sri C N Prasad , Org Secetary- AIBRF greeted the conference.
The GneralSecrtary’s report was presented by Sri S V Srinivasan. Delagtaes from Kerala, Delhi,
Andhra Padsh, Odissa, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Tamil nadu, Karnataka , Chandigarh and UP
deliberated on the report. Sri G V SambasivaRao, DputyGeneral Secretary- CBEU andworkmen
director, Sri P S Sundaresan , former Vice President of AIBEA, Sri M A Srinivasan Gen Sec CBOU ,
and Sri Luke Bhaskaran President CBEU also offered their greetings.
The panel proposed by Sri S V Srinivasan, Chennai and seconded by Sri M Venugopalan,
Palakkad was submitted to the Returning officer and was approved by the house unanimously.
The principal office bearers were as under

Chairman A K Bansal -Delhi
President V K M Varma- Cochin
General secretary S V Srinivasan – Chennai
Join Gen secretary K R Manoharan- Chennai
Treasurer A B KasturiRangan- Chennai

2nd Conference at Ernakulam on 24th and 25 th February, 2016.
After the first Conference in Bengaluru which was a one day Conference, we felt that for an
organisation like AICBRF, the Conference duration should be at least 2 days so that pressure of
time will not be felt. So at the Ahmedabad CC of AICBRF in February 2015,when the agenda of
holding the Second Conference came up, we from Kerala suggested that the Conference should
be for 2 days and offered to hold the Conference in Ernakulam (Kochi). Accordingly,the 2nd

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conference for 2 days was arranged at GouriKalyanaMandapam, Near Durbar Hall Grounds,
Ernakulam. The conference venue was named after our legendary leader Sri R J Sreedharan.
More than 850 delegates participated.

The delegates session started after flag hoisting at 9.45 AM on 24thfeb 2016. The following
leaders were invited to the dias. Sri S C Jain, Gen Sec –AIBRF, Sri T M Mathews, Former
President- AIBRF, Sri D DRustagi Joint Secretary, AIBEA, Sri M D Gopinatha and Sri M A
Srinivasan President and General secretary of CBOU, Sri C D Josson, Chairman Reception
Committee and Gen secretary- AKBEF, Sri S Ramakrishnan , Secretary CBEU Keralstate
Committee and Sri K Srinivasan General Secretray AKBRF. The delagtaes session was
inaugurated by Sri S C Jain Gen sce AIBRF, Sri T M Mathews & Sri M D Gopinath addressed the
conference.
The report of the federation was presented by Sri S V Srininvasan , General Secretary by noon.
In the post lunch session Dr. V K Singh, Joint General Secretary of CBEU addressed.
In the evening a well participated procession was organised starting from SBT Broadway
Branch Ernakulam as a prelude to the public session in which the retirees of our Bank from all
parts of the country took part projecting the various genuine demands of the bank retirees.
The public session commenced with the welcome address of Sri C D Josson, the Chairman of
the Reception Committee of the conference.President Sri V K M Varma in his address drew the
attention to the anti-labour attitude of the rulers and the unwillingness of the bank
managements in implementing the various court judgements especially in favour of bank
retirees
Justice Sri C N Ramachandran Nair, former Judge, High Court of Kerala and former Chairman of
Pay Commission, Kerala inaugurated the public session. He observed that uneven pension
existing for bank employees was not appropriate. He also informed that public sector banking
is also akin to govt departments as they carry out he schemes of the govt and hence the govt
must supplement the pension fund. Sri S C Jain, Sri S Nagarajan, General secretary- AIBOA ,
Com M A Srinivasan and Com D DRustogi offered their organisational support for the cause of
the bank retirees. Sri K Srinivasan, of AKBRF also addressed the public session.
On the second day of the conference Sri S Ramakrishnan, Sri C D Josson and Sri Vinod Kumar
(Deputy General Secretary- CBOU) offered their greetings. SmtSoumini Jain, Worshipful
Mayor of Kochi also offered her greetings.
More than 35 delegates from all over the country took part in the deliberations on the General
Secretary’s report. In between the session Sri C N Prasad, VP –AIBRF briefly explained the
nuances of Medi assist claim process and also clarified the queries raised by the delegates.
17 resolutions affecting the bank retirees and senior citizens were moved and adopted.
The panel containing 26 office bearers and 29 CC members was proposed by Sri S V Srinivasan,
Delegate from Chennai and seconded by Sri A K Bansal,delegate from Delhi and the same was
approved by the house. The following were elected as principal office bearers.

Chairman A K Bansal Delhi
President V K M Varma- Cochin
General Secretary S V Srinivasan – Chennai
Join Gen secretary K R Manoharan- Chennai
Treasurer A B KasturiRangan- Chennai

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The session concluded at 5.30 PM.

3rd Conference of AICBRF at Hyderabad
3rd Triennial Conference & also Women Retirees’ Convention was held at Hyderabad on 17th &
18th September 2019 at MunnuruKapuVidyarthiVasathiGruham, 3-3-43, Kachiguda Station
Road, Kachiguda, Hyderabad.More than 800 delegates including 120 ladies participated from
all over the country.
Women’s Convention was held on 17 th afternoon.Smt AnoopMathur welcomed the
gathering.SmtC S Ramalakshmi, RetdIFS, was the Chief Guest.General Secretary of AIBRF, Sri S
C Jain graced the occasion with his presence.Sri S V Srinivasan, General Secretary, AICBRF,
pointed out that AKCBRA, Kerala first took the initiative to form Women’s Wing followed by
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

The following were elected unanimously as office bearers of AICBRF Women Council:

Chairperson : Smt M Saraladevi, Kerala

President : SmtAnoopMathur, Delhi

Convenor : Smt S Bhuvaneswari, Tamil Nadu

Joint Convenor: SmtP K Premavally, Kerala

Joint Convenor: SmtP R Subbulakshmi, Karnataka

The Public Session was welcomed by Chairman of the Reception Committee Sri
LaxmanaRao.Chaiman Sri A K Bansal and President Sri V K M Varma addressed the session. Sri S
C Jain, Gen Secy of AIBRF inaugurated the Conference. Sri C H Venkatachalam, General
Secretary of AIBEA was the Chief Guest.Sri R Sankara Narayanan, our Bank’s MD& CEO who
could not attend the Conference, had sent a greetings message.With vote of thanks by
Reception Committee Convenor Sri G V Sambasiva Rao, the public session concluded.

On 18 th, the delegate’s session was addressed by Sri Ajay Manjrekar, General Secretary, CBEU,
Sri H Vinodkumar, General Secretary, CBOU and Sri C S Venugopal, President, CBEU.28
delegates and 2 observers took part in the deliberations on the General Secretary’ s Report.
After an elaborate reply by General Secretary to the points raised by delegates and observers,
the Report was adopted unanimously.The accounts presented by Treasurer Sri A B
KasturiRanganwere unanimously approved. So also 16 resolutions on various subjects and a
few amendments to the byelaw.

The election of Office bearers and Central Committee members was conducted by the Election
Commission of Sri A Sashikant and Sri D Luke Bhaskaran.Thepanel of Office bearers and CC
Members proposed by Sri S V Srinivasan and seconded by Sri K R Manohar was elected
unanimously. The following are the principal office bearers:

Chairman : Sri A K Bansal, Delhi

President : Sri P R R S Iyer, Kerala

General Secretray: Sri S V Srinivasan, Tamil Nadu

Joint General Secretray : Sri K R Manohar

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Deputy General Secretaries:

1. Sri B Venkat Rao, Karnataka

2. Sri B S A Rao, Maharashtra

3. Sri Anil Sood, Northern Zone, Delhi

Treasurer : Sri S Muthukrishnan, Tamil Nadu

Assistant Treasurer : Sri R Ravi Shankar

We are now holding the 3rd triennial Conference of AKCBRA. Shortly we will hold the 4
thtriennial Conference of AICBRF.

FORWARD WE MARCH

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