Our association took its birth in Karnataka in the year 1982.This was due to the efforts
of Sri Brahmanandam and Sri. Registered under Societies act the name
was finalized as State bank of India Pensioners`association, (Karnataka )
having its office at Bangalore . Nagaswamy (not with us now) took up the task of building this organization
being the Secretary of the Association for a period of
15 years.He toured all over
Karnataka to identify and meet the existing pensioners to register them as members
of the association. In 1986 when the family pension scheme was introduced by the Bank , he again did
a job of going round to identify the spouses of the deceased employees who were eligible
for this benefit and saw that they got the pension. The association grew bigger due to the new membership of retirees. Sri.P.R.Chockalingam as the President along with the Secretary did lot of work to give
a proper identity to the organization. Ramachandran,
S.N. Subbanna, K.N.Guha, R.N.Godbole served the organization as Presidents. Sri.P.R.Parthsarathy, served the organization as Secretary for a period of 9 years . Shri Shanthraju a veteran trade union leader after his retirement is now the
President of the Association with Sri Rudranna serving as Secretary till 2008. The Committee has a term of three years.
