This is because the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made it mandatory that every bank should accept soiled, mutilated and any damaged currency note without charging any fee
To help banks tide over the disruption caused by COVID-19, the CRR of all banks was reduced by 100 basis points to 3.0 per cent of net demand and time liabilities (NDTL)
Concerns have been raised about the law, which seeks to "protect and relieve" economically vulnerable groups from usurious interest rates and coercive recovery means
The development follows recent outage in the bank's internet banking and payment system on November 21, 2020 due to a power failure in the primary data centre.
The bulletin cited the pandemic-imposed retrenchment of Q1FY21 turned out to be much shallower in Q2 and the economy is reflating at a pace that beats most predictions.
The monthly bulletin of the central bank for December said the more evidence has emerged since the last bulletin which shows that the Indian economy is coming out of the Covid-induced slowdown.