Archive · 12 Aug 2026
SBI Urged to Upgrade Outdated Glitchy Passbook-Update ATMs
The State Bank of India is the biggest bank in the country, and millions of people have accounts there.
Many customers use special machines called ATMs to deposit money and to update their passbooks.
A passbook is a small book that keeps track of the money in your account.
But these machines often do not update passbooks correctly.
The machines are old and full of computer glitches, which means they make mistakes.
At most other banks, the machine turns the page of the passbook all by itself.
At SBI, however, customers have to turn the pages with their own hands.
The machine also prints the same information over and over again, which wastes paper and confuses people.
A reader wrote a letter saying SBI has plenty of money to buy new, modern machines.
New machines would make things much easier and less stressful for customers.
State Bank of India (SBI), the largest bank in India, operates ATMs that frequently fail to update passbooks properly.
The ATM systems are outdated and fraught with glitches, according to a reader's letter.
Unlike other banks' ATMs, SBI machines require customers to manually turn passbook pages.
The machines reportedly print the same data multiple times, adding to customer inconvenience.
The letter writer argues SBI has no shortage of funds to replace the ATMs with latest-technology machines to ease customer hardship.
- Who
- State Bank of India (SBI) and its customers; the complaint was raised by reader Dinanath Shenolikar of Hyderabad.
- What
- SBI's outdated and glitchy ATMs fail to update passbooks properly, force manual page turning, and print duplicate data, prompting a call to replace them with new technology.
- When
- Not specified in the article.
- Where
- India — SBI ATMs and branches; the letter writer is based in Hyderabad.
- Why
- The outdated ATM systems cause hardship for customers trying to update passbooks, and SBI has sufficient funds to modernize them.
- Bank
- State Bank of India (SBI)
- Issue
- ATMs fail to update passbooks properly; systems outdated and glitchy
- Passbook handling
- Customers must turn pages manually, unlike other banks' ATMs
- Duplicate printing
- Machines print the same data multiple times
- Suggested fix
- Replace ATMs with latest technology using available funds
- Source
- Reader's letter by Dinanath Shenolikar, Hyderabad