Flesh trade has taken a hit because of demonetisation, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad while listing the achievements of demonetisation in a press conference in Bhopal said today. Prasad also said that demonetisation was not the first step to root out corruption. "Before demonetisation we formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT), which the previous UPA government did not do despite Supreme Court guidelines... Talking about former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's attack on demonetisation Prasad said, "We have seen Manmohan Singh work for 10 years. Prasad also claimed that digital transactions have increased along with employment generation post demonetisation.

Source: India Today November 07, 2017 13:36 UTC