Reportedly for three days, the Munnar town post office witnessed a rush of visitors like never before. Meanwhile scores lined up to open postal accounts on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Perhaps this after fake news spread like wildfire that Prime Minister Narendra modi had promised Rs 3-15 lakh deposit for those who have postal accounts.

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Furthermore estate workers from many parts of Munnar arrived after taking leave from work to open postal accounts. Further even police had to reach the spot to regulate the crowd in view of the commotion that took place at the post office and the post office officials conducted a special drive for the workers to open accounts. Earlier on Monday, another rumor spread that land and houses will be distributed for free by the government. 



Finally, the RDO officials issued a notice that it was not a direction issued from the office. Devikulam sub-collector Renuraj directed the police to take action against the rumor-mongers. Paramasivam said "I had also erected a board in front of the office that there was no special benefit for the new account holders. We didn't issue any message regarding the benefits of the accounts. We suspect that someone spread the fake news through WhatsApp or social media. Within two days, we opened 1050 new savings accounts under the postal bank”.


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