Cost of printing notes doubled to â¹7965 crore: RBI
RBI on Wednesday said the cost of printing notes doubled to â¹7,965 crore in 2016-17 from â¹3,421 crore in 2015-2016, on account of new currency printing post demonetisation. RBI said 7.62 lakh counterfeit currency notes were detected in 2016-17. It further said that 8.9 crore old â¹1,000 notes out of 632.6 crore didn't come back to the system.