Rs 2,000 notes discontinued, 2.1% notes still not returned to RBI

Rupees 2000 Notes Not Returned To RBI News In Hindi

Out of the Rs 2,000 notes with RBI, about 2.1 percent notes have not been returned to the government.

RBI News In Hindi: Even after RBI banned Rs 2,000 notes and decided to return them to the banks, you will be surprised to know that till now about 2.1 percent of the Rs 2,000 notes held by RBI have not been returned to the government. Is.

It should be noted that the deadline for depositing or exchanging money in bank branches has also ended nine months before today. According to the information revealed, about 2.1 percent or Rs 7,581 crore of the Rs 2,000 notes have still not been returned to the RBI.

This essentially means that 97.87 per cent of the total value of high-value Rs 2,000 bank notes will be returned to the banking system by the end of June 2024, the Reserve Bank of India said in a statement on Monday. The total value of Rs 2000 bank notes in circulation stood at Rs 3.56 lakh crore at the close of business on May 19, 2023, the day the RBI decided to withdraw the bank notes.

The last date for the general public to deposit or exchange high value Rs 2000 notes in banks was October 7, 2023. However, the facility to deposit or exchange Rs 2000 notes is available at 19 issue offices of RBI.

You can still deposit Rs 2000 notes

These 19 ongoing offices of RBI are in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Belapur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna and Thiruvananthapuram.

People of the country can send Rs 2,000 bank notes through India Post to the RBI issuing office from any post office to deposit in their bank accounts in India. Rs 2000 bank notes remain legal tender. The Rs 2000 bank notes were introduced in November 2016 with the main objective of rapidly meeting the currency requirements of the economy after the withdrawal of the legal tender status of all Rs 500 and Rs 1000 bank notes in circulation at that time. The objective of introducing Rs 2000 bank notes was achieved when bank notes of other denominations became available in sufficient quantities.

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