{"id":89633,"date":"2023-01-03T06:56:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T01:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=89633"},"modified":"2023-01-03T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T01:26:08","slug":"notes-ban-didnt-niti-aayog-ex-vice-chairmans-mixed-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/notes-ban-didnt-niti-aayog-ex-vice-chairmans-mixed-report-card\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Notes Ban Didn&#8217;t&#8230;&#8221;: Niti Aayog Ex Vice-Chairman&#8217;s &#8220;Mixed&#8221; Report Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rajiv Kumar, the former vice-chairman of government&#8217;s thinktank Niti Aayog, today gave a mixed report card to the notes ban of 2016. The Supreme Court, which backed the notes ban in a 4-1 verdict, had steered clear of the question, saying it is &#8220;not relevant&#8221; whether the objective of the overnight ban was achieved or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Kumar, however, told NDTV that he didn&#8217;t think the notes ban had managed to achieve all it set out to do. The only positive, he said, was digitisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outcome of notes ban is &#8220;quite mixed&#8221;, Mr Kumar told NDTV in an exclusive interview. &#8220;Because given the nature of our economy, the unorganised sector in our economy, a large segment of our economy is running on cash, the large sectors like construction etc. the attempt to weed out the cash economy or the black money etc, I don&#8217;t think it would have been achieved,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While announcing the notes ban in November 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made it clear that the ban was part of a larger plan to curb black money, and thereby terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But six years on, the amount of fake currency in circulation is far more than 2016. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:&nbsp; Rajiv Kumar, the former vice-chairman of government&#8217;s thinktank Niti Aayog, today gave a mixed report card to the notes ban of 2016. The Supreme Court, which backed the notes ban in a 4-1 verdict, had steered clear of the question, saying it is &#8220;not relevant&#8221; whether the objective of the overnight ban was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89635,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89633\/revisions\/89635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}