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Status of the Return of SBNs – Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Annual Report 2016-17

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..... Status of the Return of SBNs – Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Annual Report 2016-17 - News and Press Release Dated:- 31-8-2017 - News - The RBI Annual Accounts for 2016-17, at note XI.6.2 Liabilities of Issue Department Notes Issued in para (ii) mentions - Until June 30, 2017, SBNs were received by the Reserve Bank either directly or from bank branches/post offices through the currency chest .....

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..... mechanism. Some of these SBNs are still lying in the currency chests. The value of the SBNs received by the currency chests has been credited to the banks account on said to contain basis . Till such time these notes are processed by the Reserve Bank for their numerical accuracy and authenticity, only an estimation of SBNs received back is possible. Subject to future corrections based on ver .....

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..... ification process when completed, the estimated value of SBNs received as on June 30, 2017 is ₹ 15.28 trillion. From the reports/data earlier published by RBI, currency in ₹ 1,000 and ₹ 500 denomination in circulation was at ₹ 15.44 lakh crore. [6857.82 million notes of ₹ 1000 and 17165.06 million notes of ₹ 500 amounting separately to ₹ 685782 cror .....

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..... e and ₹ 858253 crore]. Taking into consideration, the value of SBNs now reported to have been counted, approximately 98.96% of SBNs in value terms have come back to the RBI after demonetization. In other words, only an estimated ₹ 16000 crore worth of SBNs have not come back to the RBI so far. The RBI s Annual Report at page 125 under Chapter VIII - Currency Management, in Table V .....

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..... III.1: informs that ₹ 1,000 denomination banknotes in circulation were only 89 million pieces (value of ₹ 8900 crore) as on 31st March, 2017. If these figures are subtracted from the total figure of ₹ 16000 crore, then it implies that SBNs of ₹ 7100 crore of ₹ 500 denomination have not come back to RBI so far. Therefore, ₹ 1,000 denomination of value of appr .....

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..... ox. ₹ 8900 crore and ₹ 500 denomination of value approx. ₹ 7100 crore have not come back to RBI. As per RBI s Annual Report at page 127 under Chapter VIII - Counterfeit Notes and Security Printing VIII.9 informs that during 2016-17, 762,072 pieces of counterfeit notes were detected in the banking system, of which 95.7 per cent were detected by commercial banks. Detection of .....

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..... counterfeit notes was 20.4 per cent higher than the previous year. Barring ₹ 100, the detection of counterfeit notes increased across denominations notably, ₹ 500 and ₹ 1000 during 2016-17. The study done by RBI shows that the rate of FICN detected per million pieces of notes processed at the currency chest level at 7.1 pieces for ₹ 500 denomination and 19.1 pieces f .....

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..... or ₹ 1000 denomination, which were higher than the rate of detection at the Reserve Bank (5.5 pieces for ₹ 500 and 12.4 pieces for ₹ 1000). At the Reserve Bank s currency verification and processing system during 20156-16, there were 2.2 pieces of FICNs of ₹ 500 denomination and 5.8 pieces of FICNs of ₹ 1000 denomination for every million pieces of notes processed; w .....

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..... hich rose to 5.5 pieces and 12.4 pieces respectively during post demonetization period. - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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