Opposition Congress and Trinamool Congress today sought to know from the government why it was "hiding" the number of old 500 and 1000 rupee notes that have been deposited in banks post-demonetisation. Thomas said the government, while making the announcement of demonetisation, had said that it will help in tackling black money, terrorism and fake currencies. It is estimated that old currencies worth over Rs 15 lakh crore was removed from circulation through the demonetisation. However, the government had said RBI has to count the actual number of such currencies deposited during the period after verifying the numerical accuracy and authenticity. (This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna July 27, 2017 10:41 UTC