-The Business Standard The scheme can be named as 'Social Security Scheme' or 'We The People Scheme'; would not offer high returns like chit funds Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today proposed to launch a government-sponsored deposit-taking scheme to provide a secured saving option to the rural people of the state as an alternative. "To provide proper facility in the wake of growing financial insecurity, we are thinking of a social...
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Left leaders meet PM, FM, seek CBI probe in chit fund scam
-PTI NEW DELHI: Leaders of Left parties today met the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister and sought a CBI probe into the ponzi scam in West Bengal and stringent measures to tackle fraudulent money pooling activities. The Left parties have been demanding a CBI probe alleging that the Mamata Banerjee government was opposed to such an investigation as it would reveal links of her party with the prime movers of the...
More »In recent times, every scam’s trail has led to dubious deals in real estate -Ravi Teja Sharma & Viney Sharma
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI and CHANDIGARH: It is not without reason that the quintessential real estate firm has become the epicentre in all scams in India in recent times. From Satyam to 2G, Vadra to Saradha and now Railgate - every scam's trail leads to fraudulent investments and dubious deals in the real estate sector. Not only does the barely regulated sector allows rampant transactions in black money allowing scamsters...
More »Mamata seeks public opinion on 'parrot CBI'
-IANS Amid clamour for a CBI probe into the raging Saradha Group chit fund scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday sought public opinion on the Supreme Court describing the agency as "a caged parrot speaking in its master's voice". "Please see what the Hon'ble Supreme Court has said. CBI has become caged parrot speaking in its master's voice. What do you think? Opinion please," Banerjee said on a social networking...
More »Trail of death in chit fund collapse -Falguni Banerjee & Sanjib Chakraborty
-The Times of India CHINSURAH/SODEPUR: The body count in the aftermath of the Saradha collapse keeps going up. A director of a micro-finance company was murdered at his home in Hooghly's Chinsurah on Monday even as the father of a chit fund agent hanged himself after being beaten and humiliated by cheated depositors in Sodepur on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. This is the eighth suicide since the Saradha Group meltdown ruined...
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