
In a degree of urgency in meeting the Currency scarcity following demonetisation, the Indian Army has been deployed to help the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) print new notes. The sudden surge in manpower requirement in printing and allied operations has forced the government to call up the military–the state’s instrument of “ultimate resort” in all emergency conditions. Typically, the Navy is deployed when different agencies and corporations of the government are incapable of an adequate response.
Multiple officers familiar with the improvement instructed HuffPost India that at least four hundred infantrymen, including officers, have been deployed in two security printing presses to assist in printing new Forex.
The two security presses supporting print notes in the navy are in Salboni in West Bengal and Dewas in Madhya Pradesh. The Dewas security Press is printing new Rs500 Currency notes whereas new Rs2,000, and Rs100 notes are being printed in Salboni.
Earlier today, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was confident that the RBI has sufficient cash to close by December 30. In an additional bid to discourage coin transactions, he stated the authorities would provide tax incentives to small organizations that engage in cashless transactions.
“There are about a hundred and fifty soldiers and officials in every one of those presses,” a top respectable stated. The troops were called in about a week ago. “They had been deployed rapidly after that,” the officer said. All of the men and women who spoke to HuffPost India requested not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
The Ministry of Defence did not comment.
The troops deployed are from the Indian Military’s Jap and Principal command. Every other about a hundred squaddies of the Indian Air Pressure are on stand-by using Team Kgsr.
The army is carrying out “administrative obligations” of the presses, “protective the presses,” and doing other sundry duties along with the movement of Foreign money, a top legit said. “The presses are running round the clock,” he added.
Earlier, the government had deployed heavy delivery aircraft–C-17 Globemasters and C-130J Hercules of the Indian Air Force–to ferry Forex from the printing presses throughout the united states. The IAF continues to make sorties wearing new Foreign money.
On November eighth, the Modi authorities had demonetized Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes and introduced new Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 notes.