Note Ban
Demonetisation: Revealed! Who placed government's proposal to ban Rs 500, Rs 1000 notes before RBI Board?
Wed, Mar 13, 2019
Demonetisation, Note Ban: The government's proposal to ban Rs 500 and 1000 notes was placed by the then RBI Deputy Governor Rama Subramaniam Gandhi before its board, which resolved to back the move in "larger public interest" though some directors raised concerns about short-term negative impact
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Demonetisation threw up political, economic puzzles: Arvind Subramanian
Mon, Dec 10, 2018
Subramanian, currently teaching at Harvard Kennedy School, and here for the launch of his book "Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley Economy", published by Penguin, referred to the chapter "The Two Puzzles of Demonetisation -- Political and Economic".
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Demonetisation a massive, draconian, monetary shock: Arvind Subramanian
Thu, Nov 29, 2018
Breaking his silence on the November 8, 2016 decision of PM Modi, Arvind Subramanian says that he does not have a strongly-backed empirical view apart from the fact that the welfare costs, especially on the informal sector, were substantial.
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Banks yet to pay CITs Rs 25 crore for note ban period, says CLA
Wed, Dec 13, 2017
The Cash Logistics Association (CLA) Secretary General U S Paliwal said that these companies provided additional services for evacuating old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes from ATMs across the country and recalibration of about 1.5 lakh ATMs to dispense new notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500.
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Note ban anniversary: RBI says still verifying returned notes
Sun, Oct 29, 2017
Nearly a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation, the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 bills returned to banks are still being "processed in all earnest" through a sophisticated currency verification system, the RBI has said.
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Demonetisation may have hurt more than it helped
Sat, Sep 02, 2017
It will take time for the economists to figure out whether the fall in the growth rate to 5.7 per cent is the result of the disruption caused by demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST), but most of the common people will see a connection between the two steps and a slowing down of the
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RBI to procure 50 note verifying machines
Sun, Jul 30, 2017
As per the Request for Proposal (RFP), the machines should be computer based and microprocessor controlled and capable of processing, counting, sorting and authenticating banknotes into 'fit for circulation', 'unfit for circulation', 'reject notes', 'suspect/forged notes', and 'emission-wise sorting on design and series', among other categories.
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