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This is how long the cash shortage will continue for

  • The Bank Employees Federation of India (BEFI) said currency note shortage will continue for another four to five months
  • BEFI has said that even if the country's all four currency press facilities work at optimum capacity, it will take four to five months
This is how long the cash shortage will continue for

 

"Cash shortage will continue even if the four currency note printing presses run at their optimum capacity. It will take four to five months to restore normalcy in cash supply," bank employees' union BEFI general secretary P K Biswas said here.

 

Biswas alleged that some customers have vandalised bank property in some of branches of public sector banks and halted banking operations due to cash shortage post-demonetisation.

 

As on March this year, there were 15,707 million pieces of old Rs 500 notes and 6,326 million pieces of Rs 1,000 notes in circulation, the union said.

 

The situation "can turn worse" in a week or so if the customers face difficulties in withdrawing their salaries from banks and ATMs, BEFI said.

 

It said printing ink and dice for new denomination notes have reached the Salboni printing facility in West Bengal, but when the actual printing will start is yet to be known.

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