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Less cash economy fails? Currency in circulation zooms 17% in FY19

-PTI

Currency in circulation jumped a hefty 17% to Rs 21.10 lakh crore as of March 2019, the Reserve Bank of India said in its annual report for 2019.

Mumbai:
Despite many an effort to shift to digital payments and usher in a ‘less cash’ economy post-demonetisation, the currency in circulation has jumped by a hefty 17% to Rs 21.10 lakh crore as of March 2019, the Reserve Bank says in its annual report for 2019.

The demand for the Rs 500 bill, which is the second highest denomination after the Rs 2,000 note, has soared the highest and now accounts for over 51% of the value of currency in circulation, says the report released on Thursday.

"The value and volume of banknotes in circulation increased by 17 per cent and 6.2 per cent to Rs 21.10 lakh crore and 1,08,759 million pieces, respectively, in FY19," the report says.

It may be noted that one of the objectives of the note-ban of November 8, 2016 rendering as much as 86% of the outstanding bill useless and had a crippling impact on the economy as a whole, was to encourage digital payments and bring down the use of cash.

But the public returned back as much as 99.8% of the cancelled notes back into the system, leading many voices to question the rationale for the very exercise itself.

The annual report notes a 59% increase in retail electronic payment transactions to 23.3 billion.

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