Bizmen asked not to accept ₹2K notes as deadline ends

AS the deadline to exchange ₹2,000 currency notes ends on September 30, the trade associations have asked the shopkeepers and public to not use ₹2,000 notes for commercial transactions.

- ASHISH SRIVASTAVA

Chamber of Trade and Industry chairman Brijesh Goyal appealed to 700 market associations, shopkeepers, traders and factory owners of the national capital not to accept 2,000 notes. Goyal said that not many notes have remained in circulation and accepting the currency on the last would put traders into a hassle.

"After September 30, ₹2,000 notes will not be deposited in banks. Later, these notes will continue to be deposited in the RBI, for which appropriate reasons will have to be given as to why the notes have not been deposited in the banks till now," he said.