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When a Farmer repays Rs 3,450 power dues in coins 

The recovery team of the electricity department  found themselves in a piquant situation when a farmer paid Rs 3,450 power dues in coins. It took around four hours to count the money, all in the denomination of Re 1, Rs 2 or less.

Rev Singh, a resident of the tribal  village, dug out five earthen pots full of coins when a four-member team from the electricity department knocked his door to recover the dues.

 “As soon as the team knocked on Rev Singh’s door and ask him to repay the electricity bill, he dug out five earthen pots filled with coins and put it before us…The farmer asked us (team members) to take whatever his due was and leave remaining behind.”

The team took nearly four hours to count the money. “Even after repaying the electricity bill, nearly three-and-a-half filled pots remained with the farmer,” 

Rev Singh told  that he was collecting coins for 20 years, since his son’s birth. He wanted to weigh his daughter-in-law with these coins, whenever she came home. However, when his son left home to marry a girl of his choice a few years ago, an upset Rev Singh stopped collecting coins.