SALEM: A scam is unravelling in Tamil Nadu Sarvodaya Sangh (TNSS) with incentives meant for weavers being siphoned off, ostensibly by some insiders and touts, using fake bank accounts in the name of people who are not weavers.
According to the TNSS website, C Murugan, 40, from Manathal village near Amarakunthi in Salem district is a weaver. He turned out to be a coconut merchant when TOI met him in his village. Murugan said he didn't know he had an account at Karur Vysya Bank till an activist alerted him. R Jagannathan, 39, a tractor driver, and Kalaiarasan from Olaipatty Kattu Valavu village in Salem didn't know they had accounts to which money was coming from TNSS and someone was withdrawing it. People who unwittingly ended up as 'fake beneficiaries' of the scheme told TOI that they gave their Aadhaar cards to some people who offered to get them jobs and benefits under government schemes.
