Urjit Patel to answer parliamentary committee's note ban queries on Jan 20

Apart from Patel, the PAC has also called other finance ministry officials

A parliamentary committee, probing the government's decision to scrap high-value bank notes, has sent the country's central bank governor a list of questions on the demonetisation process and asked him to appear before it on Jan. 20.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has asked the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Urjit Patel, to explain how the decision for demonetisation was taken and for details on its impact on the country's economy, PAC Chairman KV Thomas, also a senior member of the opposition Congress party, told Reuters.

Patel, under fire from some politicians over shortages of replacement currency and restrictions