On 18th October, there was message received from VM-RBISAY ‘Have you registered a nominee for your bank account? Nomination helps in easy settlement of claim of deceased depositor/s. For more missed call on 14440’. This is perhaps a rare announcement on a mobile messaging system. Prima facie the message seemed authentic. What was unusual was its apparent uniqueness and perhaps the first ever flagging of a routine information in a mass dissemination channel. Many would recall that when there is a standard requirement of a nominee in all bank accounts and indeed many banks don’t accept the opening of an account or a deposit unless all the columns are duly filled up. The message coming as it does on the eighth month of the Corona pandemic times, does heighten the morbidity of the times.
This is something which the media occasionally refers to and it’s more than likely that it is in the brief of some governmental committee. Creating an agenda of a committee or adding to an existing agenda of a...
