Employees feel pinch of cash crunch

​Mahbubnagar: The weekly limit imposed on withdrawal of cash and non-availability of adequate currency in the banks, has inflicted on pain on employees of both government and private sectors.

The employees in both government and private sector are unable to withdraw the money deposited by their employers towards their salaries. They are struggling to pay for house rent and pay monthly bills for milk and other essentials.

Mohammand Basha, a lineman in BSNL at Jadcherla said, “We have been going to the bank every day morning and standing in long queues, wasting our precious time to get just Rs. 2000. Some times by the time our turn comes, the counter closes due there is no cash.

Because of lack of adequate cash we are not able to pay our house rents, monthly milk bills, paper bills and clear debts in grocery shops. We request the government to immediately ease the cash flow to enable us to lead a dignified life.”

When referred with the government’s initiative to go cashless, many who were standing in queues at the banks were clueless about the procedure.

“We had never carried out any cashless transactions earlier. All of a sudden if the government wants us to go cashless, how do they expect us to pay the milkman, the paper boy and the grocery shops?

They do not even have accounts of their own,” said Jangaiah, a Municipal worker from Kavarammapeta Grama Panchayati.