Indian Express: Indore: Wednesday,
February 22, 2017.
The RBI is
not aware of the number of bank accounts in which more than Rs 2.5 lakh in the
scrapped currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 were deposited between November
8 and December 30 last year, it has said in response to a query under the Right
to Information Act.
“In reply to
my RTI application, the Department of Currency Management of the Central bank
on February 17 said it did not have the figure of bank accounts in which more
than Rs 2.5 lakh were deposited in demonetised notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000,”
said Chandrashekhar Gaud, an activist from Neemuch district of Madhya Pradesh.
The RBI also
did not have the number of accounts in co-operative banks in which more than Rs
2.5 lakh were deposited in the scrapped notes during the period, Gaud said,
citing the RTI reply.