, Pension eligibility is
Granted on attaining the age of superannuation is Minimum 10 years qualifying service required. Maximum service reckoned is 33 years (for this purpose fraction of service in excess of 6 months will be reckoned as one year)
Where as for Voluntary Retirement the minimum qualifying service is 20 years. Life time Social Security benefit is given in countries like USA, Canada, Australia, London if workers complete 10 years of service (40 Quarters).
Government of India, Ministry of Finance must consider giving pension to bank employees , who resigned and have service rendered for 10 years and over. This must be considered on compassionate grounds as there are few hundred such bank employees who have been deprived of this. Even employees having service of 19 years are considered ineligible which is not fair.
AKS