Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Chinks in ATM armour bared

....“The ATMs directly managed by SBI are manned. Some that have been outsourced do not have guards. After today, we think security personnel must be deployed at all kiosks,” she added. The SBI has some 100-odd ATM kiosks in the city, of which nearly 30 are outsourced. Many other banks, like PNB, too have unmanned ATMs. Subhash Chandra Arora, AGM of PNB, admitted that only their fringe kiosks are manned, whereas the ones in the city are not. He sought refuge in an RBI guideline that asks people not to resist bank/ATM heists, risking one’s life. He also insisted that deploying security had its own flip sides.......

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