New Delhi: Starting from real estate business to weddings the Narendra Modi-led NDA government's demonetisation drive has cast its shadow on almost everything in the country.
While opposition parties including SP, BSP, Congress and Trinamool Congress attack the government's sudden decision to abolish Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes as it will cause problems to common man, BJP chief Amit Shah terms it a move which will immensely help in tackling corruption.
Let's have a look at the side effects of the demonetisation drive:Bizarre
- Demonetised Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes were found floating in the Ganga river in Mirzapur (UP). Torn notes of Rs 500, Rs 1000 found near garbage dump in Kolkata. In Guwahati’s Rukmini Nagar, torn currency notes were found in drains.
- Robbers snatched Rs 1,500 from a labourer in Greater Noida but returned the money after discovering the snatched currency were demonetised notes.
- In Delhi, shopkeepers and auto-rickshaw drivers are turning to beggars to exchange demonitised notes.
- In Tiruvannamalai (Tamil Nadu) a man used colour photocopy of Rs 2,000 note to buy booze from TASMAC outlet. The outlet employee later said since he hasn’t seen Rs 2,000 note before, he accepted it believing it was genuine.
- Frustrated by the demonetisation move, kidnappers in Varanasi on Sunday released a 9th standard boy who was abducted on November 8. Parents of the victim thanked PM Modi.
- Police have seized unaccounted cash worth Rs 4 crore in now-defunct Rs 1,000 denomination notes from a Maharashtra-based trader at a checkpost in Burhanpur district in Madhya Pradesh.Good
- Vinayka Hospital and Research Centre, a private hospital in Ranchi treated patients for free between 10-13 November.
- A sweeper in Pune found a stash of Rs 1,000 notes in garbage and handed it over to the police.
- Demonetisation has come down hard on dowry seekers. According to a report a groom’s family in Bihar sought Rs 20 lakh dowry from bride’s parents. Now, demonetisation drive has dissolved bridegroom's family demand.
- Violence and stone pelting incidents in Kashmir Valley have come to a dwindling halt post demonitisation.
- Demonetisation has become a party pooper in Delhi-NCR as cash-based alcohol sales in bars, pubs and ‘ahatas’ have been going down since the announcement.Also Read: As Nation Faces Cash Crunch, This Tea-Seller Takes To PaytmBad
- In Tarapur (Gujarat), a 47-year-old farmer died of heart attack while standing in a queue outside a bank to exchange demonetised notes.
- A 65-year-old man collapsed after he was made to stand in a long queue to exchange now-defunct notes in Makronia (Madhya Pradesh).
- In Govandi (Mumbai), a newborn died allegedly after his parents attempted to deposit now discarded cash in the hospital and the hospital refused to accept the same.
- A 96-year-old man died in Udupi (Karnataka) while waiting in a queue at a bank in Ajekar, due to a spike in blood pressure.
- An elderly woman, who had gone to a bank to exchange two Rs 1,000 notes, allegedly died of shock outside the bank in Kushinagar district (Uttar Pradesh).
- A woman in Telangana committed suicide because she thought all her money had become valueless post demonitsation.
- A woman in Meerut reportedly had to mortgage her jewellery as hospital refused to hand over her dead husband’s body because of change.
- A 69-year-old man died in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar town after suffering a heart attack while standing in a queue to exchange demonetised currency notes outside a bank.Also Read: Demonetisation Move Has Led to Financial Anarchy, Says Shiv Sena
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