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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 47, November 20, 2016, Article 34

INDIA BANKS RECIRCULATE SOILED BANKNOTES

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Banks in India are recirculating banknotes that would ordinarily be withdrawn and destroyed, resorting to using perfume and even insecticide. -Editor

100 Rupee notes Fuelled by an unprecedented cash crunch after the government spiked high-value currency notes, some banks are receiving soiled, smelly Rs 100 notes for recirculation.

Many customers in Delhi complained to IANS that they received mouldy notes, some of which smelt ‘very bad'.

A bank manager, who asked not to be named, told IANS, “The RBI is sending old 100 rupee notes stored for years but not destroyed, These notes smell. We are spraying them with perfumes and insecticides before disbursing them.”

The manager said Rs 100 notes worth millions of rupees have been recirculated to narrow down the huge demand-supply gap in cash after the November 8 demonetisation of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes -- which accounted for 86% of the currency in circulation by value.

Usually, such soiled notes are returned to banks by the customers and they finally end up in RBI offices where they are shredded and ferried to dumping sites.

In the future, third-party currency graders may channel wine critics: "Heavy notes of black mold, with a hint of DEET." -Editor

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Banks recirculate soiled banknotes by spraying perfumes, insecticide (www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/banks-recirculate-soiled-banknotes-by-spraying-perfumes-insecticide/story-tlDj7jQJYgxhsYsfIOUQdN.html)

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