Dehradun, Sept. 13 -- Nationalised banks across Uttarakhand remained closed today following a one-day strike called by the United Forum of Bank Unions to press for their six-point charter of demands. The strike brought the banking operations to a standstill, leaving the customers inconvenienced as transactions, deposits, withdrawals and other services were disrupted. Employees staged demonstrations outside branches, raising slogans against the government and demanding immediate redressal of their grievances.

In Dehradun, nearly four thousand employees joined the protest at Astley Hall Chowk outside the Central Bank. They claimed that resorting to strikes is not their preferred path, but the long delay in addressing their demands has comp...