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Note ban: Currency in circulation shows rise after 9 weeks of fall

This may temper the surge in payments made through digital banking

Currency in circulation shows rise after 9 weeks of fall
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An employee counts Indian rupee notes inside a private money exchange office in New Delhi. <b>Photo: Reuters </b>

Abhijit Lele Mumbai
For the first time after the decision announced on November 8 to demonetise high value notes, currency in circulation has showed net rise in a week.

In this case, the week ended Friday, January 13, with RBI pumping more and more high of value notes back in the system. Going by the pace, almost 80 per cent of the demonetised currency is expected to be replaced by end-February. 

On the night of November 8, the government cancelled Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes as legal tender, removing about 86 per cent of whatever was in circulation.

The latest week's rise