-Scroll.in The shock move devastated India’s informal economy. Many small businesses never recovered, as a supply chain at the intersection of diamonds and plastic shows. Up till 8.30 pm on the night of November 8, 2016, Muniram Yadav was blissfully unaware of the announcement that had shaken the country just thirty minutes before. He was engrossed in work, in a tiny workshop in Mumbai’s Sakinaka suburb, supervising four labourers as they carried...
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5 reasons why cash is back in the economy after 5 years of Demonetisation -Anand Adhikari
-BusinessToday.in Two years prior to Demonetisation, the currency, as well as the nominal growth in the economy, was in the range of 10-12 per cent. But in the last two years, currency in circulation has grown by 14-16 per cent whereas the nominal GDP growth has been lower. Five years after Demonetisation, the cash in the system is back at a much higher level. The government had demonetised the high-value notes of...
More »Five Years Since Demonetisation, Value Of Cash In Circulation Up 64% -Animesh Singh
-NDTV.com (with inputs from Agencies) The value and volume of bank notes in circulation had increased by 16.8 per cent and 7.2 per cent, respectively, during 2020-21 Though the government had launched its sudden move of Demonetisation to cull out black money by weeding out currency notes worth 500 and 1,000 rupees denomination out of the system, on November 8, 2016, the notes in circulation in value terms have increased by 64...
More »No, Demonetisation wasn’t a good idea, badly executed – it was a ridiculous idea from the start -Rohit Azad
-Scroll.in The policy, which wreaked havoc on the lives of the poor, mistakenly conflated cash with black money. Was Demonetisation a good idea, badly implemented? I have heard this from the supporters of the regime but, to my surprise, even friends who are otherwise critical believe this to be true. The government’s stated aim for denotifying high-value currency notes with a four-hour deadline on November 8, 2016, was to land a body blow...
More »Five years later, it’s even more clear that Demonetisation was a disaster for India -Arun Kumar
-Scroll.in The move brought about a policy-induced crisis for the country and did little to stop the flow of black money. The Demonetisation of high-denomination currency notes on November 8, 2016, created a nightmare for citizens that lasted several months. Long queues formed outside the banks and ATMs to obtain swap denotified currency notes for new ones so that life could continue. This situation persisted even beyond December 30, 2016, the last...
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