SGPC wants to exchange notes

Devotees have been dropping banned notes in the donation boxes at temples and gurdwaras

Old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes were scrapped last year, but that hasn’t been stopping devotees from dropping these notes in the donation boxes at temples and gurdwaras. The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SPGC), responsible for managing gurdwaras, and temple trusts across India, have been sending representations to the finance ministry to explore the possibility of launching a special amnesty scheme for the committee to exchange the stacks of old currency notes for new ones.