India, Jan. 27 -- Operations across all public sector banks, including the State Bank of India, are likely to be hit on Tuesday after the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) called a nationwide strike on January 27, demanding an instant implementation of a five-day workweek.

UFBU, which is an umbrella organisation comprising nine major bank unions in India, representing employees and officers across public sector banks and some old generation private banks, called for the strike on January 23, HT earlier reported.

While public sector banking operations would bear a heavy brunt today, private banks such as ICICI bank, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, IDBI bank etc are expected to function normally, unaffected by the strike.

After UFBU announced the...