Nagpur/New Delhi: As the reports of district cooperative banks unable to shell out enough cash to extend immediate cash relief of Rs 10,000 to farmers it swung into action on an urgent basis. The government has allowed district cooperative banks and post offices to exchange old, big bank notes, which are no longer in circulation, with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a month, provided these notes were collected by December 30, 2016, a Finance Ministry statement said.
In an official notification, the Finance Ministry said, “Specified bank notes may be deposited by such Bank, Post Office or District Central Cooperative Bank, as the case may be, in any office of the Reserve Bank, within a period of 30 days from the commencement of these rules, and get the exchange value thereof by credit to the account of such Bank, Post Office or District Central Cooperative Bank, as the case may be, subject to the satisfaction of the Reserve Bank of the conditions specified in the said notification and the reasons for non-deposit of the specified bank notes within the period under that notification.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a shock move on November 8 last year to ditch Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 bank notes – worth a combined $256 billion – that he said were fuelling corruption, being forged and even paying for attacks by militants who target India.
