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Colossal notes ban failure buried in silence -TM Thomas Isaac

-The New Indian Express

Having brought this economic disaster on the country, there was not a single statement of regret, introspection or even justification from the powers that be

Demonetisation will go down in Indian economic history as one of the greatest policy blunders. In the two quarters prior to the ban on high denomination rupee notes, the Indian economy had registered around 9% growth. Since then, the growth steadily decelerated and was around 3% in the quarter preceding Covid. Calculations on the back of an envelope revealed that the total national income loss, assuming sustained potential growth of 9%, would be more than Rs 13 lakh crore.

Money is to the economy what lifeblood is to our body. If the whole blood is suddenly sucked out of our body, we will be dead. Similarly, a sudden withdrawal of 86% of the value of notes in circulation would result in an economic collapse. The total mismanagement of the operation of printing, distributing and exchanging the new legal tender for the cancelled notes did not take place within the 50-day period that the prime minister had boasted about. It prolonged into months. By the time the money came back into the system, many micro, small and medium units had withered and died.

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