Cash worth Rs 42,200 crore was deposited in 3.74 crore Jan Dhan accounts between November 8, 2016 - when Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his surprise note ban announcement - and December 30, 2016.

The problem is that two big objectives that the Prime Minister had touted in his late evening speech - about catching black money and weeding out fake notes - have been less than successful to say the least.

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The Congress chief alleged that money was taken from common people and handed over to crony capitalists under the guise of demonetisation.

Cash savings as a percentage of gross national disposable income (GNDI) surged to 2.8% in the last fiscal, according to preliminary data released by the apex bank.

The central bank is believed to be squeezing the supply of the Rs 2,000 note to prevent black money hoarders from hoarding the higher-value currency. Large value currency notes are easier to hoard, and can be used for the proliferation of black money.

The report says there has been a \"noticeable increase\" in counterfeit notes detected in the denomination of new Rs 500 (up by 4,178 per cent) and Rs 2,000 (by 2,710 per cent) notes.

Chidambaram says every rupee of the Rs 15.42 lakh crore, barring a small sum of Rs 13,000 crore, has come back to the RBI.

Because of demonetisation, of the total fake notes detected, the share of such notes detected at the RBI was higher at 36.1 per cent in 2017-18 as compared to 4.3 per cent during the previous year.

BJP MPs of a parliamentary panel, of which former prime minister Manmohan Singh is also a member, have stalled the adoption of its contentious draft report on demonetisation that is critical of the Modi government's note-ban decision.

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Before he became Prime Minister, Narendra Modi vowed to bring all illicit money stashed away in foreign countries, and promised that poor people in the country would get Rs 15 lakh each.

The top industrialists in the country have been quite reluctant in publicly voicing their concerns about the economy in all these years. The scene is changing now.

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The 70,000 officers and employees of banks like State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Travancore and State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur -- these all merged with the SBI on April 1, 2017 -- got the compensation but now they are being asked to \"return the compensation for extra work\".

Over Rs 29.41 crore was spent on using the Indian Air Force's ultra-modern transport aircraft -- the C-17 and the C-130J Super Hercules -- to ferry the newly-issued Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 currency notes post-demonetisation.

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A team constituted by the BMC examined 5,440 stores across the city. Around 94 shops were found to be in possession of banned plastic.

The NABARD says during the period, 1.60 lakh customers of the bank deposited or exchanged demonetised notes worth Rs 746 crore, which was only 15 per cent of the total deposits of the bank.

Analysis of some of the financial indicators across the time horizon of 3 years (FY16 to FY18) to study the impact of demonitisation.