You can now drive into a petrol pump to draw cash. Swipe your debit card at petrol stations run by state-run oil companies and you will get Rs 2,000.The facility will initially be available at 2,500 petrol pumps across the country that have card swipe machines from State Bank of India, the country's largest bank. The withdrawal will be restricted to Rs 2,000 per debit card per day. We wrote to the prime minister on November 14 to apprise him of the situation at petrol pumps and our willingness to help mitigate people's cash woes. "Our pump attendants are as good as, if not better than, bank tellers when it comes to handling cash.

Source: Times of India November 17, 2016 17:30 UTC