Demonetized currency: After Tirupur sisters, it’s a 92-yr-old
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
26.12.2019
Coimbatore: A month after two septuagenarian sisters from Tirupur drew media attention for saving ₹46,000 in demonetized notes, it has now come to the light that a nonagenarian granny from the same district had saved ₹33,500 in banned notes.
The granny, R Kamalammal, 92, has been saving the money for more than two decades, one of her family members said. Due to old age, she was unable to remember the amount of money she had saved.
When TOI contacted her on Wednesday, Kamalammmal was unable to say when she had started to save the money and what she had intended to do with it.
Her son R Gopal, 64, said she must have started saving from the income she used to get from the houses they had let out for rent at Ganapathy. “She had saved ₹100, ₹500 notes and also notes of lower denominations such as ₹1,” he said.
When around a year ago, Kamalammal was shifted from the house she was living at Ganapathy to Gopal’s house at Kondayampalayam near Keeranatham, they found the notes hidden inside her old clothes in an almirah, Gopal said. “She had saved the money by hiding it in between her saris. She had tied the notes with strings. My daughters found it when we were moving her almirah,” Gopal said.
However, he said, when they had inquired for what she had saved the money, she was unable to answer. “We also tried to tell her that the old currency notes had no value now. But all she said was she did not remember saving the money,” he said.
Kamalammal’s husband Rajuvadu passed away a few years ago. She has three children, two daughters and a son. She now lives with her son.
Last month, it had come to light that K Rangammal, 75, and her younger sister, P Thangammal, 72, in Tirupur, had saved ₹46,000 in demonetized notes for their last rites and medical expenses. Later, the Tirupur collector offered them old age pension.
SAVING FOR NOTHING: R Kamalammal had been saving for more than two decades
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
26.12.2019
Coimbatore: A month after two septuagenarian sisters from Tirupur drew media attention for saving ₹46,000 in demonetized notes, it has now come to the light that a nonagenarian granny from the same district had saved ₹33,500 in banned notes.
The granny, R Kamalammal, 92, has been saving the money for more than two decades, one of her family members said. Due to old age, she was unable to remember the amount of money she had saved.
When TOI contacted her on Wednesday, Kamalammmal was unable to say when she had started to save the money and what she had intended to do with it.
Her son R Gopal, 64, said she must have started saving from the income she used to get from the houses they had let out for rent at Ganapathy. “She had saved ₹100, ₹500 notes and also notes of lower denominations such as ₹1,” he said.
When around a year ago, Kamalammal was shifted from the house she was living at Ganapathy to Gopal’s house at Kondayampalayam near Keeranatham, they found the notes hidden inside her old clothes in an almirah, Gopal said. “She had saved the money by hiding it in between her saris. She had tied the notes with strings. My daughters found it when we were moving her almirah,” Gopal said.
However, he said, when they had inquired for what she had saved the money, she was unable to answer. “We also tried to tell her that the old currency notes had no value now. But all she said was she did not remember saving the money,” he said.
Kamalammal’s husband Rajuvadu passed away a few years ago. She has three children, two daughters and a son. She now lives with her son.
Last month, it had come to light that K Rangammal, 75, and her younger sister, P Thangammal, 72, in Tirupur, had saved ₹46,000 in demonetized notes for their last rites and medical expenses. Later, the Tirupur collector offered them old age pension.
SAVING FOR NOTHING: R Kamalammal had been saving for more than two decades
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