On July 4, the excess liquidity, as reflected by the amount of money absorbed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), stood at Rs 2.3 lakh crore- highest in one month. The central bank absorbed Rs 2.22 lakh crore of surplus liquidity on July 3, RBI data showed.
“It was a transitory kind of note to fill in the value which was lost in demonetisation," said Sudhakar Kaza, former managing director of Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Ltd, the division of RBI which prints banknotes.
Currency with the public is arrived at after deducting cash with banks from total currency in circulation. Currency in circulation refers to cash or currency within a country that is physically used to conduct transactions.
About 89 per cent of the Rs 2,000 denomination banknotes were issued prior to March 2017 and were at the end of their estimated life span of 4-5 years.