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Lucknow Bank employee dies due to work stress
Sadaf Fatima, an employee of HDFC Bank in Lucknow, died while working in her office, raising fears of workplace stress.
After the death of an employee from Pune due to work stress, the government's attention was drawn, a woman from Lucknow fell to her death from her office chair. Her colleagues told Daily Bhaskar that she was under pressure from work.
The incident took place on Tuesday and the woman was identified as Sadaf Fatima, who worked at HDFC Bank. A report accompanying the publication stated that she was posted as Additional Deputy Vice President at HDFC Bank's Vabuti Khand branch in Gomtinagar.
On September 24, Sadaf fell from her chair while working in the office. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Later, his body was sent for post-mortem, he said.
In an X-post, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav called the incident “worrisome” and said it was “symptomatic of the current economic pressure in the country”.
All companies and government departments have to think seriously in this regard. This is an irreparable loss of human resources of the country. Such sudden deaths call into question the working conditions. The real measure of development of any country is not the increase in the number of services or products but how free, healthy and happy a person is mentally,” suggested a rough translation of Akhilesh Yadav's post in Hindi. has gone
The Samajwadi Party chief also criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and alleged that the country's economic policies have failed.
Due to the failed economic policies of the BJP government, the turnover of the companies has decreased so much that to save their business, they employ fewer people many times more. BJP government is as much responsible for such sudden deaths as the statements of BJP leaders that demoralize people,” he tweeted.
“To overcome this problem, companies and government departments must make proactive and meaningful efforts for 'quick improvement,'” his post read.
In July this year, a female chartered accountant, identified as 26-year-old Anna Sebastien Perrail, died due to work stress, just four months after joining Ernst & Young (EY), a Pune-based firm. were After his death, Sebastian's mother wrote to EY India chairman Rajeev Maimani in September, alleging that the workload and extended working hours had taken a toll on her daughter. However, the firm has denied these allegations.
Union Labor Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had recently said that Pirail's case was being probed.
