₹2,000 Notes To Be Scrapped, Exchange Them By This Date, Will Remain Legal Tender: The central bank has said it will withdraw ₹2,000 notes from circulation and people can exchange or deposit them in their bank accounts by September 30.
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 19 regional offices and other banks will start taking ₹2,000 notes for exchange with lower denomination one from May 23. They will remain legal tender, the RBI said.
The RBI has told all banks to stop issuing ₹2,000 notes immediately.
The RBI started printing the ₹2,000 note in November 2016 after Prime Minister Narendra Modi scrapped high-value ₹1,000 and ₹500 notes overnight
“The objective of introducing ₹2,000 banknotes was met once banknotes in other denominations became available in adequate quantities. Therefore, printing of ₹ 2000 banknotes was stopped in 2018- 19,” the RBI said in a statement.
“In order to ensure operational convenience and to avoid disruption of regular activities of bank branches, exchange of ₹2,000 banknotes into banknotes of other denominations can be made up to a limit of ₹20,000 at a time at any bank starting from May 23, 2023,” the RBI said.
“About 89 per cent of the ₹2,000 denomination banknotes were issued prior to March 2017 and are at the end of their estimated lifespan of four-five years. The total value of these banknotes in circulation declined from ₹6.73 lakh crore at its peak as on March 31, 2018 (37.3 per cent of notes in circulation) to ₹3.62 lakh crore constituting only 10.8 per cent of notes in circulation on March 31, 2023,” the RBI said.
Post a comment The central bank said this note is not commonly used for transactions. The RBI had undertaken a similar withdrawal of notes from circulation in 2013-2014.
