The All India Regional Rural Bank Employees Association (AIRRBEA) secretary general Dilip Kumar Mukherjee has issued the following statement:
About 70000 officers and employees of 82 regional banks (popularly known as Gramin Bank) working at around 17000 rural branches in all the states of the country will go for strike for one day on June 8, 2012 with the following long  pending demands: 1.     Parity of Pension 2.     Formation of National Rural Bank of India 3.     Regularization/absorption of part-time/daily waged workers in RRBs 4.     Withdrawal of government order on HR policy 5.     Representation of workman and officer in the Board of Management
In spite of the specific direction of the Hon’ble Supreme court to extend parity of wage structure to the RRB staff, more specifically by Hon’ble Karnataka High Court & Rajasthan High Court  to extend parity of pension benefits, government of India has not yet extended the benefit of pension to the RRB staff.
AIRRBEA has been demanding for the constitution of National Rural Bank of India with state level RRB under it with the amalgamation of all the RRBs exclusively for rural and agricultural credit on delinking the RRBs from Sponsor banks. All these demands are pending with the Government.