On Sept. 5, 1977, Arundhati Bhattacharya was sent to SBI Staff College, Hyderabad. After the training period, she was posted to her familiar ground during her student days, Alipore. This was her probation period of two years. She had further training at Vadodara in Gujarat. After this, her probation days ended and she was given her first permanent posting. I think it was a foreboding of a great future in SBI for Arundhati that her first posting was to the Forex Division of Main SBI Branch in Kolkata, the ‘largest hub of such activity in Eastern India then.’
