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The government did not assess the impact of demonetisation, the government’s most disruptive move that instantly invalidated 86 percent currency in the circulation or about Rs 15.44 lakh crore. This was the government’s response in Lok Sabha to a question by P Karunakaran, CPI MP from Kasargod in Kerala and Tej Pratap Singh Yadav of Samajwadi Party from UP’s Mainpuri constitutency. [caption id=“attachment_4199425” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File image of serpentine queues outside banks after announcement of note ban. PTI[/caption] Since the government had not assessed or studied the impact and after effects of demonetisation, providing details of its impact or after impact does not arise, the Minister of State for Finance Pon Radhakrishnan said. As per data published in Annual Report 2017-18 of the RBI, the total value of Specified Bank Notes (SBNs) in circulation as on 8 November, 2016 post-verification and reconciliation, was Rs 15,417.93 billion and the total value of SBNs returned from circulation was Rs 15,310.73 billion, said Radhakrishnan.
Since the government had not assessed or studied the impact and after effects of demonetisation, providing details of its impact or after impact does not arise
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