Currency blues

With reference to ‘RBI may be holding back Rs 2,000 notes: SBI Report’ (December 21), if one truly believes this report, it is highly unimaginable to learn that the RBI has not released the high value notes worth Rs 2.46 lakh crore. It also reveals that the RBI may either be holding back Rs 2,000 notes or may have stopped printing high denomination currency. 

In all fairness, both the RBI and the government should urgently clarify the position and thereby put to rest all such reports. Perhaps, this issue gains more significance as the RBI had incurred huge expenses in getting