Orissa: Sahitya Akademi fellow returns remuneration for literary venture from chit fund firm

  |   28 October, 2014   |   903   |   3980

The chit fund scam in Orissa has claimed a victim in the most unlikeliest of places with noted bilingual writer and Sahitya Akademi fellow Manoj Das returning the remuneration that he received from one of the chit fund firms for a literary venture. After revelations about his receiving Rs 10 lakh as remuneration from chit fund firm Seashore Group over running a Odia magazine for the group, a hurt Das donated the honorarium of Rs 10 lakh he received from the company to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF).



Das was the advisor of Sahitya Patrika, a monthly Oriya magazine and Kishore Patrika, a monthly Oriya magazine for teenagers, published by the Seashore publications division. Das was also in charge of planning the contents of these two magazines for which the company had paid him a monthly honorarium of Rs 1 lakh for some months.