House keeper is crorepati

House keeper is crorepati- LS secretary-general guards cash flashed in Parliament

New Delhi, July 28: You may not have noticed him on TV on trust vote day. A serious-looking 63-year-old with a moustache, he had no chance in the eyeball stakes against wads of cash being waved by MPs.
But P.D.T. Achary, who sat a few feet in front of Somnath Chatterjee in Parliament and had a hard time explaining the voting rules in the din, can now permit himself a chuckle. The money — all one crore of it — is now his prisoner, locked away in a cabinet.
“The money is safe and sealed in my room. There is a guard keeping watch over it. There is also 24-hour security for the room,” the Lok Sabha secretariat’s topmost official told The Telegraph.
Achary admits he cannot remember a time in his 35 years in the secretariat when a House official’s chamber was so flush with cash. “There has never been such a situation,” he said.