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'Full demonetised amount to take time'

It is a difficult process as there are rooms filled with extinguished notes, said an RBI official

Rs 3.25 crore in old notes seized from a hotel in Karol Bagh, New Delhi. Photo: Twitter(@ANI_news)
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Rs 3.25 crore in old notes seized from a hotel in Karol Bagh, New Delhi. Photo: Twitter(@ANI_news)

Arup Roychoudhury New Delhi

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to soon issue provisional data on how much of old notes were returned to banks from November 10 to December 30, in the wake of demonetisation.

Calculating the exact amount will take some time, a top government official said on Wednesday. "It is a difficult process. There are rooms filled with extinguished notes. RBI will have to collate those numbers. There is also the issue of double counting," the official said.

Business Standard had said that as of December 30, about Rs 14.5 crore of the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes had