In India teachers work the least number of hours. Two months for summer vacation, another one month for winter and exam holidays, around 40 sundays and various other religious and statutory holidays add upto a total of around 150 days of doing nothing. If teachers worked regular hours like everyone else parents would be free to work fulltime. This would be especially useful for women who would not have to take career breaks to have children. At least teachers are poorly paid. Not so bank officers. After the Sixth Pay Commission last year public sector bank officers are highly paid, work in airconditioned comfort and have large number of holidays. Earned leave, casual leave, medical leave, sundays, half day working on saturdays and all the religious and statutory holidays mean that sarkari bank fellows work less than six months in a year. For instance Valmiki wrote the Ramayana before Lord Rama was born before which he did 40 years of tapsya before which he was a bandit called Ratnakar. Who knows his exact birthday? Yet bank fellows take a holiday every year. So shameless are they that they regularly go on strike for increased salary. They were on strike last two days and there were huge queues in front of banks this morning. The strike must have affected business for two days and milions of people wasted valuable time outside banks today. Every time these selfish shameless people go on strike they should be made to pay for national loss from their own pockets.