Dilemma of cash and new currency notes continued in the city on Sunday as the ATMs and banks failed to maintain the supply demand ratio. Besides, two people including a bank official of SBI died in the past two days in the State due to pressure.
The latest casualty was reported at SBI branch at Neelbad in the evening on Sunday while an elderly man died waiting in a queue to exchange demonetised notes in Sagar on Saturday.
Purshottam Vyas (45) posted as cashier with SBI branch in Neelbad reported illness and was rushed to Sharda hospital where he was declared dead.
On Saturday Vinod Kumar Pandey (69) a resident of BSNl Colony in Makronia of Sagar was at a queue in front of the local Union Bank of India branch fainted and later declared when rushed to nearby hospital.
People of the city have received some relief as the new currency notes of Rs500, finally issued in Bhopal. Although, the currency notes of Rs2,000 already came into the circulation.
Notably, the Union Government had abolished the currency notes of Rs500 and Rs1,000 with effect from November 8 and had introduced new notes of Rs500 and Rs2,000.
Various ATM machines of Roshanpura, New Market, Banganga, Chola, Nehru Nagar and Depot Square were found running out of cash while long serpentine queues were witnessed in almost every bank of the city.
However, the Government and the bank officials are assuring the people that new currency notes would be available in the upcoming days. The Government officials assure that re-calibration of the ATM machines for the new currency notes would take two to three weeks and afterwards everything would start working properly.