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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Demonetisation: In value, digital deals surge, then dip to 5-month -Sunny Verma & Pranav Mukul

Demonetisation: In value, digital deals surge, then dip to 5-month -Sunny Verma & Pranav Mukul

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published Published on Aug 31, 2017   modified Modified on Aug 31, 2017
-The Indian Express

Demonetisation: On digital transactions, too, RBI data shows that the volume of electronic payments, after peaking in December 2016 at 957.50 million transactions compared with 671.49 million in November, has been on a decline.

New Delhi: When it launched the currency withdrawal in November, the NDA government had outlined four key objectives of the demonetisation exercise: detection of black money, elimination of fake currency, squeezing funds available for terror funding and promotion of a “less-cash” society. The data released by the RBI in its annual report on Wednesday indicates that on most of these counts, the objectives can either be classified as work-in-progress or being simply elusive.

The premise in the days after the announcement was that the currency notes that failed to return to the banking system could largely be categorised as “black money”, a view that was corroborated by the then Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi in the Supreme Court and subsequently by a senior finance ministry official.

Rohatgi had said that of the total estimated money in circulation of Rs 15-16 lakh crore, the government expected people to deposit Rs 10-11 lakh crore. “The rest, Rs 4-5 lakh crore, were being used in northeast and Jammu and Kashmir to fuel trouble in India. That will be neutralised,” he had said. A senior finance ministry official had told reporters in November that the government expected that Rs 3 lakh crore would not return into the banking system.

With nearly 99 per cent of the junked currency having come back into the banking system, that argument doesn’t hold — reinforcing the assumption that the bulk of black money is trapped in sectors such as real estate, gold and held overseas.

On digital transactions, too, RBI data shows that the volume of electronic payments, after peaking in December 2016 at 957.50 million transactions compared with 671.49 million in November, has been on a decline. Even as there was a blip in March to 893.89 million transactions, the volume has since come down to 862.38 million transactions in July. This includes transactions through systems such as NEFT, prepaid wallets, UPI, debit and credit cards, cheques and mobile banking, a 28 per cent growth from November levels.

In value terms, November 2016 recorded Rs 94 lakh crore in electronic payments which grew to Rs 104 lakh crore in December, surged in March to Rs 149 lakh crore, then declined to Rs 107 lakh crore during July — a five-month low.

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The Indian Express, 31 August, 2017, http://indianexpress.com/article/business/banking-and-finance/demonetisation-in-value-digital-deals-surge-then-dip-to-5-month-4821580/


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