Black-Money Mashup ft by Quora & Google

It’s a bold move by the Government and can be called as the Surgical strike of the Government on Black Money (add Terrorist funding, arms smuggling and Counterfeit currency to that).

The joke on twitter sums it up nicely.

India prepared for Hillary and Trump, Modi came out of syllabus

Currently Rs 17,54,000 crore worth of notes are in circulation according to the RBI’s database on the Indian economy.

Of this Rs 500 notes constituted almost 45% of the currency in circulation while 39% of the notes were of the Rs 1,000 denomination. In value terms.

However in terms of volume, Rs 10 and Rs 100 notes constituted 53% of the notes in circulation.

This measure would mean that from midnight, almost Rs 6,32,600 crore in circulation in the form of Rs 1,000 notes would be illegal tender. To replace them, Rs 2,000 notes would be introduced, which according to the government would be limited in circulation.

RBI data shows that in 2015-16, almost 6.5 lakh counterfeit notes were detected in commercial banks of which almost 4 lakh were in the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 category. It is in this context that the government wants to re-monetise the Rs 500 note while de-monetizing the Rs 1,000 note. But the number of Rs 100 counterfeit currency were also close to 2 lakh this year.

Impact: Heavy Deflation

Initially, there will be heavy deflation as people who have earned money through illegal means such as smuggling, corruption would be afraid to declare the money as they might be prosecuted by Govt/Income Tax Dept on the legitimacy of their income.

This will reduce the total currency circulation in the economy - leading to deflation. Deflation increases the value of money that we have because the total money supply goes down but the commodities and things available in the market have not gone down.

Gold prices, stocks & commodities will drop.

This will also lead to Inflation (not overnight)

There will be a lot of people who have a lot of cash, legally earned, which they will deposit it in the bank.

Now the bank with more deposits can do more lending.

Credit (loans) will become easier and interest rates may come down. More loans were given out increased the broad money supply and creates inflation. But this will happen slowly, not overnight.

Deflation and Inflation will balance out each other in the future.

Some of the benefits of this move are: (Pros)

• It will help the government to fight Black money, corruption, terrorism and counterfeit currency with one single decision.
• Arms smuggling, espionage, and terrorist related activities will be choked due to lack of funding.
• Counterfeit currencies are being used for financing terrorism which is being run by the enemy in India. Now Govt has taken a bold move which enables them to fight counterfeit currency/terrorist funding activities.

• With the new limits on ATM withdrawals being restricted to Rs 2,000 per day, withdrawals from bank accounts limited to Rs 10,000 a day and Rs 20,000 a week, it will drive the card payments across the country (In simpler words card transactions will slowly replace the cash transactions in daily activities).

• It will be easy for the Government to track the money being exchanged as exchange can only be done by producing a valid government identity cards like PAN, Aadhaar and Election Card from 10 to 24 November with a daily limit of Rs 4000. There is no limit on the amount as long as it is legal.
• FIU of India gets info about transactions from banks. During this period, banks will take extra precaution. Banks will share info with Income Tax dept. as deemed fit.

(So now it is difficult to get rid of the black money which is mostly in 500 and 1000 notes)

• It was announced after all the money exchanging government mediums were closed (8 pm), so no money exchange.
• Just after Diwali when people have the maximum amount of cash.
• Marriage seasons are on. Bye Bye Dowry !
• Elections (UP and Punjab) are not far. BJP fancied its chances of winning and hence majority in Rajya Sabha too. So, NDA will turn into a super power and bills can be passed with ease by both the houses of the parliament.

The major benefit is 

• People will increasingly resort to banks for any financial transaction.

• Reduce black money and lead to more financial inclusion.

• Bring down malpractices are during elections, instances of bribing government officials, hawala transactions, terrorist activities, cross-border smuggling and illegal trade, human trafficking deals, child labor and related practices.