Tirupati temple continues get old notes

Vijayawada | Friday | 24th November, 2017

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Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) officials confirmed that a large number of devotees are offering demonetized currency into the temple hundis. VIJAYAWADA: A year has gone by after PM Narendra Modi's DeMon came into effect and yet, the richest temple in the country continues to be flooded with old notes. What could put the temple officials in a fix is the latest discovery about old currency offerings into the hundis. He, however, refused to say the worth of worth of demonetized notes, saying their total value is yet to be evaluated. Though not in huge numbers as we had seen in the early months of demonetization, the hundis are receiving a substantial old currency ," TTD chief accounting officer O Balaji told TOI..