Monday, July 21, 2014

Now a New Year deadline

........The reason for this being that notes printed and issued from 2005 onwards have better security features and cannot be easily counterfeited. However, that is not the case with pre-2005 notes which makes them susceptible to counterfeiting. The move is well-thought out drive to flush out the fake notes from the economy. The RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has already emphasized that this move is aimed not at demonetization but a technical action to reduce counterfeiting of banknotes and provide more reliable currency to the public. Having said that, RBI does recognize that withdrawal of pre-2005 notes on a nationwide scale is a time consuming affair...........



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