Parijat Saha, a teacher in West Bengal was shocked when he found 4900 Crores rupees in his Bank Account with State Bank of India. This is equivalent to 9.8 Billion US Dollars. Interestingly, the Rail Budget of India is only 58,000 crore rupees.
“I called up a friend in the bank and joked, maybe money is overflowing in your bank, that’s why your system has remitted so much money into my account”, Saha was quoted saying. Mr Saha’s monthly salary as a school teacher is 35,000 rupees only.
Without wasting much time, he got in touch with his friend Asit Sikdar, an employee of Kamarapara branch of SBI. Sikdar suggested Saha to inform the matter to the manager on Monday.
Saha informed the matter to the manager of Balurghat branch of SBI, Subhasis Karmakar, who immediately informed the head office of SBI in Kolkata and to the IT department in Mumbai.
“It was a technical mistake of the IT department in Mumbai. It has been corrected. Now, there’s no problem,†SBI sources said. “Although the money was shown to have been credited in his account, it wasn’t possible for him to withdraw it,†the source said.