{"id":11866,"date":"2020-08-03T23:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T23:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=11866"},"modified":"2020-08-03T23:01:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T23:01:45","slug":"many-atms-in-west-bengal-running-short-of-cash-due-to-covid-19-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=11866","title":{"rendered":"Many ATMs in West Bengal running short of cash due to Covid-19 restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSeveral <a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/atms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATMs <\/a>in <a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/west-bengal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Bengal <\/a>are<\/p>\n<p>running short of currency as private entities entrusted with the cash-filling task are operating with skeletal staff, sources said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tMany lenders have outsourced the exercise to such entities, who are responsible for the maintenance and operation of <a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/atms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATMs <\/a>in the state, they said.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<!-- INPAGE_BANNER -->&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/west-bengal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Bengal <\/a>convenor of All India Bank Officers Confederation (AIBOC) Sanjay Das said these private companies generally withdraw money from chests every Friday, since banks in the state are shut on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#8220;I visited two <a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/atms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATMs <\/a>near my place on Monday morning, and both were dry. Many in the neighbourhood, too, complained about it. Today being Rakhi, I had planned a feast for my brother, but with the little cash I had, it could not materialise,&#8221; said Ananya Dasgupta, a resident of Jadavpur.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tOwing to <a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 <\/a>protocols and restrictions, these entities are operating with minuscule staff and are closed on weekends, resulting in delays in cash-filling, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#8220;But, they are trying to refill cash in all the ATMs,&#8221; Das said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tHe also said all on-site ATMs within bank premises have not gone dry, as cash-filling in such machines is taken care of by the lenders and not third parties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" id=\"auto_disclaimer\">(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;\n\t\t\t\t    \t\t\t\t     \t            <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','550264998751686');fbq('track','PageView');<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/current-affairs\/many-atms-in-west-bengal-running-short-of-cash-due-to-covid-19-restrictions-120080301035_1.html\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; Several ATMs in West Bengal are running short of currency as private entities entrusted with the cash-filling task are operating with skeletal staff, sources said on Monday. &#13; &#13; Many lenders have outsourced the exercise to such entities, who are responsible for the maintenance and operation of ATMs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1593447155-4476.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}