The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may be going all out to ensure that banks do not staple notes under its clean note policy and has discontinued accepting stapled notes, but several central government departments have written to banks requesting them to issue stapled notes.
The office of the principal director of audit of Indian audit and accounts department under the ministry of home affairs, in a letter to the branch manager of B B D Bagh branch of State Bank of India has written that,
