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So many ₹2000 notes have not yet returned from the market; If you have them, then know how to get them back.

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2000 Rupee Note: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Thursday that 97.92 percent of the 2,000 rupee notes have returned to the banks. Only Rs 7,409 crore worth of notes withdrawn from circulation are now with the people.

2000 Rupee Note: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Thursday that 97.92 percent of the 2,000 rupee notes have returned to the banks. Only Rs 7,409 crore worth of notes withdrawn from circulation are now with the people. The RBI announced the withdrawal of Rs 2,000 bank notes from circulation on May 19, 2023. As of May 19, 2023, the total value of Rs 2,000 banknotes in circulation at that time was Rs 3.56 lakh crore. It came down to Rs 7,409 crore on July 31, 2024.

The central bank said in a statement, "Thus, 97.92 percent of the Rs 2,000 banknotes in circulation as of May 19, 2023, have been returned."

The facility of depositing or exchanging Rs 2,000 banknotes was available in all bank branches of the country till October 7, 2023. The facility of exchanging the Rs 2,000 banknotes withdrawn from circulation is available in 19 issue offices of the Reserve Bank from May 19, 2023.

You can still exchange ₹ 2000 notes.

RBI's issuing offices are also accepting Rs 2,000 banknotes from people and entities for depositing them in their bank accounts from October 9, 2023. Apart from this, people are also sending Rs 2,000 notes through Indian Post to any issuing office of RBI within the country. This money gets deposited in their bank account.

Notes can be exchanged at these places.

The 19 RBI offices that deposit/exchange bank notes are in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Belapur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna and Thiruvananthapuram. It is worth mentioning that Rs 2,000 bank notes were issued in November 2016 after demonetization of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 bank notes.