MADURAI: Thanks to the intervention of the Madurai High Court Bench, the daughter of a farmer from Ramanathapuram will now be able to pursue her BE course without any hassles.A single judge at the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, on Monday directed a nationalised bank to provide educational loan to the student, after her father G S Jeya Ganesan moved the Madras High Court after authorities of the Thenmalai Branch of the Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) made him run from pillar to post when he approached them for an educational loan. His daughter J Kanaganithya is a first-year BE student at the United Institute of Technology at Coimbatore.“I approached the branch manager of IOB (Thenmalai Branch) in September 2011. He advised me to come in October. When I went a month later, he asked me to come in January 2012,” an aggrieved Jeya Ganesan told the court through his counsel Thesigan.“But when I approached him on January 4, 2012, he refused to give me the application and asked me avail loan from the second year of my daughter’s course,” Jeya Ganesan added.The petitioner further said that he was the sole bread winner of the family, who also took care of his aged parents. Being a farmer did not help him meet both ends and therefore `4,44,000 for his daughter’s education was a huge amount, he added. A representation he sent to the regional manager of IOB, Tirunelveli district, was also not considered, he said.Justice D Hariparanthaman, on hearing the case, flayed the IOB bank authorities for making the petitioner run from pillar to post for the loan. He also directed the bank to provide loan for the student in three weeks’ time.
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