Kathmandu. Disputes between Social Security Fund and bank employees have escalated. Most of the commercial bank employees are protesting by putting up black banners in front of their offices. The employees' unions of the bank have even filed a case in the Supreme Court saying that they should not be forced to go to the fund.

Chairman of the Nepal Bankers Association, an association of banks and financial institutions, Bhuwan Dahal, however, said that the fund has not made it mandatory for the employees of banks and financial institutions to come to the fund. He said, "Only a few days ago, a letter was sent to the fund asking the employees of banks and financial institutions to come and take the schemes given by the fund on our own initiative. The letter did not say that the employees of the bank must come. So it is not appropriate to say we were forced." Not done

Dahal admitted that the letter was issued by the Social Security Fund as he had requested to write a letter mentioning the facility to be taken up by mid-July to make it easier for him to circulate.

Meanwhile, Kapil Gyawali, executive director of the Social Security Fund, said that they did not pressurize the employees of the bank to come but they were spreading propaganda by making unnecessary allegations.

He suggested that the current dispute between the bank's employees and the Social Security Fund should be taken as an opportunity for the fund to prove its program and objectives. He also urged to take it positively as the dispute will lead to a conclusion