First Stop: Nashik District
About 165 kilometres from Mumbai, in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, farmers and construction labourers are feeling the pinch of the Centre’s decision to withdraw old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes from circulation.
The lack of new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 currency notes and the acute scarcity of Rs 100 currency notes means work has come to a standstill in villages and small towns enroute Mumbai to Nashik.
Many said it’s getting tougher to put food on the table as they are running out of food grain, others said they must wait till new currency notes come in to get their salaries, while still others wondered how they could be expected to stand in queue outside bank branches and still show up for work.
