TV Actress Nupur Alankar Had To Sell Her Jewellery To Pay Bills Because Of PMC Bank Crisis!
Nupur Alankar has acted in shows including Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo and Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann Now she has to resort to borrowing money and selling her jewellery. PMC Bank has been making headlines since September after Reserve Bank of India put curbs in order to prevent large scale withdrawals.
Amid the ongoing crisis surrounding Mumbai-based Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC Bank), its customers are facing the heat. One among them is TV actress Nupur Alankar, who has acted in shows including Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo and Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann. Now, she has to resort to borrowing money and selling her jewellery, she said.
In an interview to The Times of India, Nupur Alankar revealed that she had transferred all her savings to her PMC bank account and now she had to borrow money as little as Rs 500 from people.
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¡°With no money at home and all our accounts frozen, I was left with no option, but to sell off my jewellery. In fact, I had to borrow Rs 3000 from a fellow actor. Another one transferred Rs 500 for my commute. So far, I have borrowed Rs 50,000 from friends. There is no clarity when the problem will be resolved and we are scared that we will lose our money,¡± she said.
¡°How am I expected to survive without money? Should I mortgage my house now? Why is there a cap on my own hard-earned money? I have been diligently paying income tax, so why am I suffering today?¡± she asked.
PMC Bank has been making headlines since September after Reserve Bank of India had put curbs in order to prevent large scale withdrawals of deposits. This happened after the former Managing Director Joy Thomas¡¯ five-page letter surfaced in media where he revealed how they systematically kept the central bank in the dark and instead gave big loans to a real estate entity by flouting all the norms.
Garima Satija leads the Entertainment vertical of Indiatimes. A storyteller at heart who enjoys the thrill of writing, she is sometimes found daydreaming about living the lives of movie characters. Also, she hates talking about herself in the third person.
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