An HDFC Bank employee in Lucknow, Sadaf Fatima, died while she was working in her office, sparking concerns about workplace stress.
Days after the ਮੌਤ of a Pune employee due to work pressure caught the attention of the ਸਰਕਾਰ, a Lucknow bank employee died of work pressure on Tuesday. The woman, identified as Sadaf Fatima, worked at HDFC Bank and died in office after she fell from her chair. Her colleagues told a publication Sadaf was under work pressure.
The report stated Sadaf was posted as Additional Deputy Vice-President at HDFC Bank’s Vibuti Khand branch in Gomtinagar.
On September 24, Sadaf fell off her chair while working in the office. She was rushed to a hospital, where she was declared dead.
Her body was later sent for a postmortem.
In an X post, Samajwadi Party (SP) ਮੁੱਖ Akhilesh Yadav termed the incident “worrying” and said it was “a symbol of the current economic pressure in the country”.
“All companies and ਸਰਕਾਰ departments will have to think seriously in this regard. This is an irreparable loss of the country’s human resources. Such sudden deaths bring the working conditions under question. The real measure of the progress of any country is not the increase in the figures of services or products but how mentally free, healthy and happy a person is,” a rough translation of Akhilesh Yadav’s post in Hindi suggested.
The Samajwadi Party ਮੁੱਖ also slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and alleged the economic policies of the country had failed.
“Due to the failed economic policies of the BJP ਸਰਕਾਰ, the business of companies has reduced so much that to save their business, they make fewer ਲੋਕ do many times more work. The BJP ਸਰਕਾਰ is as much responsible for such sudden deaths as the statements of BJP leaders that mentally demoralize the public,” he tweeted.
“To overcome this problem, companies and ਸਰਕਾਰ departments should make active and meaningful efforts for ‘immediate improvement’,” his post read.
Akhilesh Yadav’s post on X
In July this year, a woman chartered accountant, identified as 26-year-old Anna Sebastian Perayil, died due to work stress, merely four months into joining Ernst & Young (EY), a firm in Pune. Following her ਮੌਤ, Sebastian’s mother, in September, wrote to EY ਭਾਰਤ chairman, Rajiv Memani, alleging that the workload and extended working hours took a toll on her daughter. The firm, however, denied the allegations.
Union ਮੰਤਰੀ for Labour Mansukh Mandaviya had recently said Perayil’s case is being probed.
