Thursday, August 30, 2018

India's demonetisation drive failed to uncover black money

India's central bank has said that almost all of the notes banned during a crackdown on illegal cash in 2016 have come back into the banking system- raising questions about how successful the government was in cracking down on black money hoarders.

While announcing demonetisation, the Indian government had claimed that an estimated $780 billion of black money would be wiped out. However the Reserve Bank of India's report shows that only $1.5 billion was not recovered.

Our India correspondent Neha Poonia reports.

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