Forget Rs 2000 currency note, check what happened to Rs 500 note
The move hadn't gone well with the public and experts as the government was criticised for bringing out a note of such high denomination even as it had cancelled the already existing Rs 1,000 note.
However, the latest RBI report released in August 2018, revealed that only 7.8 crore notes of Rs 2000 denomination were added in 2017-18, taking the overall circulation to 336.3 crore, as of March 2018. Reuters