SBI error makes Kanpur woman richest in the world

Barely making Rs. 2,000 a month as a domestic help, Urmila Yadav of Kanpur was in for the shock of her life as she found out last week that she suddenly had more than Rs. 9.57 lakh crore in her account, media reports said.

According Dainik Bhaskar, a few days ago, Ms Yadav received a message on her phone from the bank that her account had been credited with Rs. 9.99 lakh.

When she went to investigate and have her passbook updated with recent transactions, an employee of the bank was shocked to find that Ms Yadav had Rs. 95,71,16,98,647.14 in her account, said the report.

From a humble beneficiary of the Central government’s Jan Dhan Yojana, Ms Yadav’s bank balance had streaked past the net worth of Bill Gates – currently considered the world’s richest person.

On further investigation, it was found that behind the error was a server malfunction at the State Bank of India.

The correction was made, but for a few hours at least, this 30-year-old woman from Kanpur’s Vikas Nagar was the richest person in the world.