Some time ago, 2000 notes were stopped from the market because the government had stopped the printing of these notes, but now again the government is going to start these notes.
Is the Reserve Bank of India going to issue new designed banknotes of Rs 2000? Is RBI preparing to issue new 2000 rupees banknotes of Mahatma Gandhi series? We are not asking this, rather this question has been asked to the Central Government in the Parliament. When the government asked this question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said that RBI has already issued new notes of Rs 2000 in 2016.
Rajya Sabha MP Rajmani Patel had asked this question to the government, to which the Minister of State for Finance has given this answer in writing. He asked the government whether RBI is issuing Rs 2000 new digit banknote with new series of Mahatma Gandhi notes and if so, on what dates these notes are being issued? Answering this question, the Minister of State for Finance said that the Reserve Bank of India has already issued new design notes of Rs 2000 in Mahatma Gandhi (new) series in 2016 itself.
Rajmani Patel asked the government whether it has given mandatory instructions to banks not to recirculate Rs 2000 notes and instead deposit these notes with the Reserve Bank of India. So the Minister of State for Finance clearly refused and said that no such instruction has been given.
In the same session of Parliament, the government was asked whether RBI has banned the giving of Rs 2000 notes through bank ATMs, then the government strongly denied these things. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that no such order has been given to the banks. The Finance Minister said that according to the Annual Report of RBI, since 2019-20, there has been no demand for the supply of Rs 2000 denomination banknotes.
