 "Madhya Pradesh CM hails demonetisation of Rs 500, Rs 1,000 notes")
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes from circulation. The chief minister on Wednesday night hailed the decision and termed it "historic and cleanliness drive". Chouhan said the move would help the government to deal with black money, corruption and fake currency that largely come through Pakistan.
Meanwhile, a stray incidence of altercation among tourists and commoners have been reported in different parts of the state.
Late night in Indore town district collector had to shut down jewellery shops.
"To avoid untoward situation and law and order problem we had to force some shops, particularly jewellery shops, closed which were opened the late night at around 1 am yesterday," District Collector Indore, P Narhari told Business Standard. Normally, the shops at the Sarafa market get closed around 9-10 pm. State capital also witnessed chaos at petrol pumps and at retailers who refused to accept the currency of larger denomination.
In other incidences at world heritage site Khajuraho and tourist town Pachmarhi also incidences of tourists had verbal exchanges with hoteliers and shopkeepers when they refused to accept currency of higher value.
Some foreign tourists had an altercation with local hoteliers in Khajuraho. They reported to a local police station when they were denied tickets to enter a temple site.
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"It was a stray incidence and later the tourists were informed about the situation," a police source told Business Standard. The district superintendent of police Lalit Shakyawar also told that such incidence took place in Khajuraho but was very small and subsided on a spot when police intervened and informed the tourists about demonetisation of Rs 500 and 1000 currency notes.
A new bank-note paper line of Security paper mill in Hoshangabad (72 km from Bhopal) was inaugurated by union finance minister Arun Jaitley last year to produce 6000 metric tonne of paper for printing currency notes of Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 50, Rs 100, Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations.