Hello every one, this article belongs to those from tier II cities and Tier III and got settled in some metropolis.

I belong to a simple middle class family and I went to an AB bank, a famous one in AP as my dad has an account in it. As kids from these classes nowadays are earning decently so transferring a part of their income to parents residing at their home is quite common. Money transfer is Big Issue now in AB Bank :).

My journey started @ 9am

I approached AB Bank branch in Ashok Nagar (Hyd). I was asked to wait for 20 min to know whether I can pay money in an Account existing in my home town a Municipal Corporation city.

Staff reply: “Oh I m sorry, you can’t pay here please go to Commissioner Office branch, chikkadapally branch, or narayanaguda branch, or nallakunta branch. Options were many n good.

So I started towards Municipal office branch in ashoknagar (Clerk Says I m sorry any information will be passed when we start our daily schedule 10:30am)......

Again I started to Chikkadapally branch, and there I see a person waiting outside the branch office on a footpath and looks at me and says in a mockery” what sir came to deposit money? When I asked him why he was talking in that way he asked me to see the branch timings (10 am – 4 pm)? I saw n didn’t understand what was wrong with that? He said that the staff usually comes at 10.15 and starts the process at 10.25. I said k and smiled back.

I was the first person before cashier to pay money. After seeing account name, the cashier said smilingly “I m sorry you can’t deposit please go to Ashok Nagar branch.” When I said I m coming form the same branch he suggested me to go to narayanaguda branch.

The same repeated there. Well I had good experience with Indian Banking.

While coming back I saw note outside the bank that Banks will not be working 24 and 25 of September 2008 as they would be on Strike for:
FDI in Banking sector
Privatization of Banks
They are also Protesting against Merger between PSU Banks

I would be among the thousands who would be happy if the Privatization and Mergers would happen so that it would save the trouble which we all have to go through.

I am sure many of you must have had a similar experience so I thought of sharing mine.

Any similar experiences and comments on this are accepted.

Thanks for listening to me
Omkarnadh