Chungthang residents dismayed with SBI’s continuing poor service

ALSO DEMAND REMOVAL OF DEFUNCT AIRTEL TOWER
MANGAN, 12 Oct: The State Bank of India (SBI) Chungthang branch has always remained suspect in the eyes of the people when it comes to providing quality service to customers here. For the past couple of years, the SBI service in this area has been, well, sluggish at best.
Villagers here have always been facing difficulties in terms of transactions, especially in times of emergencies when cash withdrawals are constantly denied citing “link failure”.
People here inform that SBI’s service got worse post the 18th September earthquake last year as compared to State Bank of Sikkim (SBS). Whenever, customers visit the bank for a transaction they have always been directed to go to Mangan SBI.
“This has hampered payment of school fees for our children and other important works”, complained Lendup Lepcha while speaking to NOW! The people here have requested for any other bank to replace SBI so that they do not have to face problems.
Meanwhile, residents of Chungthang have demanded for the immediate removal of Airtel Tower which has been installed here at Chungthang for more than a year without providing any services. Despite the public’s request for early activation of the Airtel network in Chungthang owing to the poor BSNL service, this tower remains defunct and abandoned, and now, an eyesore as well.