The report claimed the three Indian mints issued 8,810.65 million pieces of the newly designed Rs 500 note but the Reserve Bank of India received only 7260 million.
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According to data obtained under the Right to Information Act (RTI) by activist Manoranjan Roy, 375.450 million pieces of the newly designed Rs 500 note were printed by the Currency Note Press, Nashik, but RBI records having received only 345.000 million pieces printed between April 2015 and December 2016.
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday claimed attempts were being made to divide people based on caste and religion and rulers are not interested in resolving problems of people but are instead trying to divert their attention with "temple politics"