PILIBHIT: After the Mumbai office of a nationalized bank identified him as a guarantor for business magnate Vijay Mallya
, a local farmer from here has been allegedly deprived of banking
facilities as well as all kinds of government-sponsored schemes after
the bank froze his account. The farmer himself has no idea why
officialdom has fallen on his life suddenly.
Manmohan Singh,
from Khajuria Naviram village under Bilsanda block of Pilibhit, owns
eight acres of land and had an uneventful life till December, 2015. He
had two bank accounts with the Bank of Baroda's local branch. The Mumbai
office of the bank sent instructions to the local bank manager that
Singh had been guarantor to Vijay Mallya, and that therefore his
accounts were to be frozen.
"I do not understand how
this happened. I do not know anything about Mallya and have never
visited Mumbai in my life. Because the bank froze my accounts, I can't
avail any government-sponsored scheme. I was forced to sell my entire
wheat crop to private traders at very low prices. I could not get MSP
because payment for that is directly made to the bank account, which in
my case is frozen," Singh said, talking to TOI.
For the
forthcoming paddy crop too, Singh can't avail any subsidy provided by
agriculture and plant protection departments on the purchase of
high-quality paddy seeds, insecticides and other agricultural inputs.
Moreover, all the other banks in the area have refused to allow him to
open a new account.
"The matter hasn't been brought to
my notice yet. I will certainly look into it whenever he submits a
written complaint to me," district magistrate Masoom Ali Sarvar told
TOI.
The branch manager of BoB's Naand branch, Mange
Ram, told that Manmohan Singh had been operating both the bank accounts
for the last 8 years and the bank always found him absolutely genuine in
his dealings. He said that he has sent a favourable report about Singh
to the Mumbai regional office but it has still not taken any steps.
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