Missing Raghuram Rajan Signature Costs Indian Exchequer 36 Crore
Posted: 31/07/2015 13:28 IST Updated: 31/07/2015 13:28 IST
The Hindustan Times reports that the CAG has chided the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited for costing India an unnecessary Rs 36.69 crore loss, as it continued to print Rs 20, Rs 100 and Rs 500 denomination notes with former RBI governor Subbarao's signature in 2014, even though he had already retired from the organisation.
D Subbarao, who was the RBI governor from September 5, 2008, to September 4, 2013, preceded Raghuram Rajan, who took over on September 4, 2013.
However, this isn't an entirely new problem. In March 2014, when reports of this 'goof up' surfaced, the RBI clarified that the mis-printed notes continued to be legal tender. The Central Bank told the Press Trust of India that it wasn't easy to rapidly change new production lines to accommodate new requirements.
‘To complete the process in all the banknote presses for all denominations of banknotes is a programme which is under way and is expected to be completed in due course,’ the central bank said in a statement. "Making changes in the process is a tedious process and takes time, in order to keep the disturbance in production to the minimum extent."
CAG's quibble apart, it hasn't explained how the errant notes are a loss even as notes bearing Raghuram Rajan's signature are now ubiquitous.
India being an intensely cash-dependent economy now has nearly Rs.14.265 trillion in currency notes in circulation as on 20 March, which translates into 12.3% of India’s gross domestic product (GDP).
An analysis by Mint of the currency-supply trends in India showed that though Rs 10 notes were the most common, inflation and the general growth of the economy had seen a meteoric rise in the printing of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes, some of those which bear Subbarao's erroneous signatures.
Financially however it actually doesn't seem like a big loss because--as a proportion of their face value-- the cost of printing Re 500 and Re 1000 notes are lower than five and ten rupee ones.
Posted: 31/07/2015 13:28 IST Updated: 31/07/2015 13:28 IST
The scourge of India's government ministries and Financial-Nitpicker-In-Chief, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, has pulled up a government PSU, for printing currency notes with the wrong RBI governor's signature and thus inflicting a Rs 36-crore loss to the country.
The Hindustan Times reports that the CAG has chided the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited for costing India an unnecessary Rs 36.69 crore loss, as it continued to print Rs 20, Rs 100 and Rs 500 denomination notes with former RBI governor Subbarao's signature in 2014, even though he had already retired from the organisation.
D Subbarao, who was the RBI governor from September 5, 2008, to September 4, 2013, preceded Raghuram Rajan, who took over on September 4, 2013.
However, this isn't an entirely new problem. In March 2014, when reports of this 'goof up' surfaced, the RBI clarified that the mis-printed notes continued to be legal tender. The Central Bank told the Press Trust of India that it wasn't easy to rapidly change new production lines to accommodate new requirements.
‘To complete the process in all the banknote presses for all denominations of banknotes is a programme which is under way and is expected to be completed in due course,’ the central bank said in a statement. "Making changes in the process is a tedious process and takes time, in order to keep the disturbance in production to the minimum extent."
CAG's quibble apart, it hasn't explained how the errant notes are a loss even as notes bearing Raghuram Rajan's signature are now ubiquitous.
India being an intensely cash-dependent economy now has nearly Rs.14.265 trillion in currency notes in circulation as on 20 March, which translates into 12.3% of India’s gross domestic product (GDP).
An analysis by Mint of the currency-supply trends in India showed that though Rs 10 notes were the most common, inflation and the general growth of the economy had seen a meteoric rise in the printing of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes, some of those which bear Subbarao's erroneous signatures.
Financially however it actually doesn't seem like a big loss because--as a proportion of their face value-- the cost of printing Re 500 and Re 1000 notes are lower than five and ten rupee ones.
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