Letters: Let not all suffer

SC should prevail upon government to extend date for exchange of banned notes to September

Apropos the report, “Why no category for those who couldn’t exchange notes by Dec 30, asks SC” (March 21), many people failed to deposit the demonetised notes within the deadline.
 
A large number of people had taken for granted that the government would extend the deadline by a few months. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had publicly announced that banned notes would be accepted at Reserve Bank of India offices till March 31, 2017.
 
The ordinance promulgated by the central government on December 30, 2016, allowed only resident Indians and non-resident Indians, who were not in India between November