The currency-printing subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India has to reveal data on Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 notes printed after demonetisation, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has said, rejecting arguments that such disclosure will hurt India’s economic interests.
The Bhartiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran (P) Limited claimed that sharing information on printing of currency and related activities will result in "proliferation of counterfeit currency and economic chaos”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, 2016 announced that Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes, which constituted 86 per cent of total currency in circulation, would cease to be legal tender.
They were replaced