Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Anand Sharma (Cong) said "even a child is delivered in nine months" but the country doesn't know how many of the old and junked currency notes were returned.
The government had on November 8 last year withdrawn the legal tender status of 500 and 1000 rupee notes to flush out blackmoney and counterfeit currency.
As other opposition parties supported his call, Sharma said, "I am not going to count (the currencies) for RBI."
After the shock note ban decision, the government gave different time schemes to various categories of people to deposit the junked currency in bank accounts or exchange them for new notes. The last deadline expired on June 30.
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RBI has refused to give the number saying the "figures would need to be reconciled with the physical cash balances to eliminate accounting errors/possible double counts etc".
This amounted to 86 per cent of the total currencies in circulation (Rs 17.97 lakh crore).
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