Staff Correspondent
Mayabunder, July 30: Mayabundar the Headquarters of the North and Middle Andaman District is blessed with SBI’s so called ATM Service, which remains interrupted on most of the days in a month. The General Public of the area faces a lot of problems because of the poor ATM service provided by the SBI.
In one hand the Administration is trying hard to popularize North and Middle Andaman District as a popular tourist destination and on the other hand the ATM’s of SBI are souring the joy of the tourists visiting the place.
Most of the tourists face the problem of not having adequate cash once they step into the boundaries of the N & M Andaman district. Tourists, after seeing the conditions of the ATMs, try their luck in bank branches by submitting cheques but still face difficulties as the cheques of other banks are not cleared on the same day.
Sometimes accidently, if the SBI ATM starts working, at that instant a crowd gathers near it to fill their cash reserves for next few weeks. The crowd withdraws huge amounts to add to their reserves and as a result the ATM goes out of cash and stops working again.
Repeated complaints were lodged by the general public in past and the local media has also been writing about this issue again and again but but still SBI authorities do not bother to improve their service in North and Middle Andaman.
The SBI ATM’s at Rangat and some other places in the North and Middle Andaman District also remains in the same condition. The much awaited salary day is approaching and very soon the employees of the banks are going to have a hard time tackling the crowd just because their bank is unable to keep up the ATM Services.
