9th All India Conference of AIBOMEF to be held in Pune on Dec 27–28
Pune, 25th December 2025: The All India Bank of Maharashtra Employees Federation (AIBOMEF), affiliated to the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), will hold its two-day 9th All India conference in Pune on December 27 and 28, 2025. The conference will be held at Comrade Suresh Dhopeshwarkar Nagari, Dadasaheb Darode Auditorium, near BMCC College, Shivajinagar, Pune. More than 500 bank employees from across the country are expected to participate.
The conference will be inaugurated on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. by AIBEA General Secretary C. H. Venkatachalam, in the presence of Bank of Maharashtra Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Nidhhu Saxena. Former Bank of India general manager V.C. Joshi, Bank of Maharashtra Officers Association general secretary Krishna Barurkar, AIBEA vice-president N. Shankar, and joint general secretary Lalita Joshi will attend as special invitees.
On this occasion, the second Comrade Suresh Dhopeshwarkar Memorial Award will be conferred on Padma Shri awardee Sucheta Dalal. The award carries a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh and a citation. The honor recognizes her significant contribution to the financial sector and her efforts in guiding and creating awareness among depositors and investors to safeguard their money. Dalal is widely known for her investigative journalism that exposed the 1992 Harshad Mehta securities scam.
On the second day of the conference, noted IT expert and author Achyut Godbole will deliver a lecture at 10 am on “Artificial Intelligence and the working class: opportunities, challenges and the road ahead”. AIBOMEF president Chandresh Patel and secretary Shailesh Tilekar, along with other office-bearers, are overseeing the arrangements.
AIBOMEF general secretary Devidas Tuljapurkar said the convention assumes significance in the backdrop of the union’s opposition to the Centre’s policies on bank mergers and privatization. He added that deliberations will be held on the proposed relocation of Bank of Maharashtra’s self-owned ‘Lok Mangal’ headquarters at Shivajinagar to a rented building in Baner, as well as opposition to the sale of the bank’s wholly owned subsidiary METCO. Issues related to recruitment and long-pending demands of bank employees will also be discussed.
