Bharat Bandh on July 5, 2010: Is Your Office Open or Closed? Share Your Location!

Dear Office,

Please let us know whether your office will remain closed or open on account of the Bharat Bandh scheduled for July 5, 2010. Kindly specify the location of your office. Your prompt response will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Devdatta

Hi Devdatta,

Our office will remain closed on the 5th of July and will be compensating on Saturday for the same.

Regards,
Thasheen

Dear Office,

Please let us know whether your office would remain closed or open on account of the Bharat bandh called for the 5th of July 2010. Please mention the area in which your office is located. A prompt response will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Devdatta

Our company is a manufacturing Pvt. Ltd. company, and it is not closed. It is located in Pawane Village, Turbhe MIDC, Navi Mumbai.

Regards,
Aarti

Dear Friend,

Please share if the offices are working in Bengaluru, Bombay, Chennai, and Delhi. Saturday, we are not working. If required, we have to issue the circular today itself.

Regards,
Shyam

Dear Devdatta,

In case of a Bandh declaration, the office never closes, but employees are not able to come to the office. So, it appears closed. We always mark CL in the attendance. Whoever is able to come will be marked as present.

Thanks,
dpattanayak
Kolkata

Hi,

It all depends upon the state government policy. In Karnataka, for example, the BJP government will support, whereas in Tamil Nadu, the DMK government will not support. Hence, it all depends upon the tone of the government.

Swaminathan

Hi,

I am from Kerala, and our office will remain closed not because we are supporting the bandh, but due to fear for our lives and property.

Ravi

Yes, I too have the same question. I think it may not be required because we are in Coimbatore. Our company was on leave from the 23rd to the 27th due to the Tamil conference held here.

Hi!

Our office is closed on Monday, 5th July 2010, due to the Mumbai bandh. Our office is located in Chembur, Mumbai.

Strikes can have a significant impact on developing countries.

Hi,

Only essential work will continue, and we will be closing on July 5th, 2010. Peenya, Bangalore.
Vinayak S. Kulkarni
9886504061

Dear All,

Bharat Bandh on July 5

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for a Bharat Bandh on July 5 against the price rise, announcing a 24-hour nationwide shutdown. "In order to protest against this unjustified hike in petroleum prices and the total ineptitude of the UPA Government to address this problem, BJP President Nitin Gadkari has given a call for a Bharat Bandh on 5th July."

Meanwhile, a 12-hour nationwide 'hartal' (general strike) on the same day (July 5) has been called by the Left and other Opposition parties against the recent fuel price hike.

Parties Supporting the Strike

The four Left parties - Communist Party of India, CPI (Marxist), Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), and Forward Bloc - have given the call for the strike. Besides, the AIADMK, Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Samajwadi Party, Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Janata Dal (Socialist), and INLD have also supported the strike call.

Impact on Common Life

Note: In view of the above, the common life of people will be disturbed, and it is not safe for the employees to come out of their homes and risk themselves; therefore, it is necessary to keep the company closed on July 5, 2010.

Regards,
Mahesh K Prasad
Comart Group of Companies
Mumbai, Bangalore & Gurgaon

Hi,

We work every day because ours is a customer care department. Our office is located in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Regards,
[Name]

Yes, we decided to close on the 5th and work on another day to compensate for the loss of working hours.

Seniors,

Kindly suggest, is it mandatory to close the office on 5th July 2010 due to Bharat Bandh?

Regards, Kalpna

Please let us know whether your office would remain closed or open on account of the Bharat Bandh scheduled for July 5, 2010. Kindly inform me.

On request of employees, we are keeping open on Sunday and closing on Monday.

Regards,
Tusher

We are based out of Thane, Maharashtra, and we are closed on Monday. We will be working on one of our weekly offs in lieu of the same.

We are based in Andheri East in Mumbai, and we will be open on 5th July 2010.

Our other bases are in Chennai, Pune, Delhi, Guwahati, Allahabad, and Chandigarh.

We are closed only on national holidays and Sundays, and we do not support any bandh, etc.

I work at Hospital MCGM in Mumbai. Since we are categorized as essential services, our operations continue as usual. Only essential modes of transportation should be operational.

Regards,

Jaishree
HR Solution

Office Holiday Policy During Bharat Bandh

No office declares a holiday in this kind of scenario. It depends on the individual employee. If you can come, you are in the office; otherwise, it counts as Casual Leave (provided you have available CL in your account) or else it counts as Leave Without Pay (LWP). The office is always open. The same policy applies to all of India, including Kolkata.

Dear Friends, you have to decide for yourselves whether the call for the Bandh will impact attendance in your office. If you feel that attendance will be poor because of the Bandh, you could close your office for the day and work on some other holiday/weekly off day. The decision is entirely yours. There is no law to it.

Best Wishes,
Vasant Nair
Director Karma-HR

My office is in Noida. Since we have 24/7 operations, employees are required to come except females who have been instructed not to come to the office on Monday.

Yes, we are working today and closed on the 5th. Our factory is located at Hosur, Tamil Nadu.

G.S. RAM,

Handling 'Bandhs' in the Workplace

All 'Bandhs' are a loss to the common man and the nation. Therefore, always try to continue work on that day. However, it depends upon the situation. If your job is urgent, if at least 50% of your workers/staff are staying nearby your organization, and if you have the ability to successfully oppose 'bandh' activists, then do not hesitate to keep the organization working. If necessary, inform the nearby police station for any help.

Regards,
Arun Deshpande

We work on 5th July. Our management has not declared a holiday as it may send the wrong message regarding support or no support for the strike. We will try to go to work. If there is any disturbance, we will not go to work.

We will work on all days 24 x 7 because it is a super specialty hospital located in Chennai. Local newspapers have already reported that all transport will run as usual, and nobody will be spared if they try to threaten the shopkeepers to close.

My office is in Hazira, Surat, and hence we do not have any holiday. Our office in Mumbai is closed on 5/07/2010.

Our office is currently operational. However, there seems to be a lack of communication regarding the appropriate course of action in case of any issues in reaching the office. Several prominent IT companies have closed their offices.

Regards

Re: Will your office remain closed on 5th July 10.

Since we are located in Durgapur, West Bengal, our office will remain open on account of the By-Election on 5th July.

Regards,
Smritish

Dear all,

During all weekdays, our office is open. Our office is located at M.I. Road, Jaipur.

Regards,
Nitendra

No, I'm in my office. It isn't closed. We shouldn't protest by closing our offices. This isn't fair.

Our office always opens during all types of bandhs. At least, I always come in bandhs. My office is BPMU, Missamora BPHC, NRHM, Golaghat, Assam.

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