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ATMs re-open following a gap of two days
There has been a mixed response to the Centre’s decision to demonetise Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 currency notes, although residents continue to face hardship for laying their hands on hard cash.
Nizamabad: There has been a mixed response to the Centre’s decision to demonetise Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 currency notes, although residents continue to face hardship for laying their hands on hard cash.
As a result everybody’s attention is on banks and ATMs in various towns like Nizamabad, Bodhan and Armoor.
People, particularly commoners, and those belonging to the middle classes were forced to wait for hours at more than 600 ATMs in the town besides Bodhan and Armoor towns on Friday, even as they hailed the government’s decision as a masterstroke to weed out black money.
They suggested that the administration should have been given more time and better facilities for exchanging the currency notes.
From the early morning, thousands of people thronged ATMs in the three towns of the district after they were re-opened following a gap of two days.
They were forced to stand in long queues for hours only to be told that they could get only Rs.2,000. In some centres, there was shortage of cash. This disappointed many waiting customers.
Residents, particularly commoners, were disappointed after many shop-keepers, hospitals, petrol bunks and medical shops declined to accept the banned currency notes.
This shows that the announcements being made in the media are not being strictly enforced by officials.
Many expressed the view that the new notes of Rs.2,000 being given to those who opt for exchange of Rs.500/Rs.1,000 were insufficient to meet their daily expenses.
Balachandram, a trader, and a local resident, Ramesh told The Hans India that the Centre should have taken a decision that gave minimum trouble to the common man.
People should not have been put to so much inconvenience, they added.
