April 17, 2020

A few Sherus from the Kolkata Advisory branch
travelled long distances on two-wheelers for
work on March 23

Most of the employees of the Kolkata – Shakespeare Sarani branch in the cluster headed by Vivek Saraf started working remotely from March 18, 2020. However, the front-line employees and a few critical IT and Operations resources from the branch continued to come to the branch till March 26 to support and service the customers. They showed great courage and resourcefulness in the face of challenging lockdown conditions and this is their story.

Travelling to work when the rest of the city was slowly retreating home in fear of the novel Coronavirus was brave enough. But their challenges increased when on March 22 all public transport systems including taxis, buses, local trains and metros were cancelled in West Bengal. Many of the front-end staff could not make it to work on March 23. But a handful of Sherus including Ajoy Kumar Saraf, Alok Nath Ghosh, Arnab Dutta, Avijit Kundu, Chinmay Sarkar, Debasish Senapati, Dinabandhu Maity, Indrranil Senguptaa, Krishanu Podder, Manik Saha, Manojit Das, Monoj Adhikary, Mrinal Ghosh, Niladri Pramanick, Pankaj Kayan, Parthasarathi Basumallick, Prakash Jaiswal, Sagar Saha, Sanjay Tandon, Sayak Ghosh, Shreekant Sharma, Subrata Sarkar and Tapas Kumar Bhor reached the branch even that day to keep the business running under the able supervision of Group Head Nilesh Shah. Nilesh himself walked 3km to reach the branch. It was very crucial for him to make it to the branch on March 23 also because he had to plan for maximum employees to work from home from the following day, ie March 24.

The Sherus started very early from home to take advantage of low traffic conditions and less policemen on the road. Most of them travelled on two-wheelers from long distances, some even covering a distance of 55km from home to the branch. A few hired a private car to reach the branch. Besides carrying out the daily activities, they made arrangements using the available resources to implement the work-from-home policy. They completed all their work and left the branch around 4.00pm as the city slowly slid into a complete lockdown mode from 4.30pm. Three cheers for them all. They are all COVID-19 Heroes.

Meet the COVID-19 Heroes

Ajoy Saraf Advisory Manager, Equity	Alok Ghosh Relationship Manager, Equity	Amarjit Mahato Assistant Relationship Manager, Equity	Anup Mishra Assistant Relationship Manager, Equity
Arnab Dutta Senior Executive, Operations	Bichitro Banerjee Assistant Relationship Manager, Equity	Chinmay Sarkar System Administrator	Debasish Senapati Relationship Manager, Equity
Dinabandhu Maity Relationship Manager, Equity	Indrranil Senguptaa Advisory Manager, Equity	Joydip Roy Executive, Back Office	Krishanu Podder Relationship Manager, Equity
Manik Saha Client Relationship Executive	Manojit Das Relationship Manager, Equity	Monoj Adhikary Relationship Manager, Equity	Mrinal Ghosh Executive, Onboarding
Nilesh Shah Deputy Vice President, Branch Business (Group Head)	Pankaj Kayan Senior Executive, Operations	Parthasarathi Basumallick Assistant Manager, CRE	Prakash Jaiswal Relationship Manager, Equity
Rahul Banerjee Manager, Branch Business	Sagar Saha Senior Executive, CRE	Sanjay Tandon System Administrator	Sayak Ghosh Relationship Manager, Equity
Shreekant Sharma Manager, Operations	Subrata Sarkar Executive, Operations	Tapas Kumar Bhor Executive, Operations

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