The government said that it doesn’t have any plans to introduce 5,000 and 10,000 notes in the market sooner. “The matter was examined in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India and it has not been found suitable to introduce of Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 note,” Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
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He replied in negative when asked whether the government proposes to introduce Rs 5,000/10,000 denomination notes with a view to reduce the expenditure the printing of notes in future.
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The government had recently introduced Rs 2,000 note along with a new Rs 500 note following the demonetization which scrapped 86 percent of the currency in circulation on November 8, 2016. Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das had in February said the government has no plans to re-introduce Rs 1,000 notes.