State Bank Of India [SBI] — need to take fd for 1, 00, 000 to get locker facility

Address: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600100

Website: www.onlinesbi.com

Hi,

I am having a savings ac in sbi pallikaranai branch (Ifsc : sbin0016558), when contacted the manager for locker, she demanded to take an fd for 1, 00, 000. When asked if it is as per sbi policy, the manger said yes, but when i insisted to show the details about the same, the manager was clueless, and then manager said that lot of people are in queue for the locker, so asked me to provide a request letter so if my turn comes the banking people will call me.

But when i checked online for the availability of locker in my home branch, i could see there are some locker which are free, i am unable to understand if locker are free why cant they fill on fcfs basis