As per the Government, nobody had
the clue about demonetisation. On November 8, a gazette notification was issued
by the Department of Economic Affairs signed by Dr. Saurabh Garg, which
stated, “Whereas, the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India
(hereinafter referred to as the Board) has recommendedthat bank notes of
denominations of the existing series of the value of five hundred rupees and
one thousand rupees (hereinafter referred to as specified bank notes) shall
cease to be legal tender; Para 4 of the Notification states that “Now,
therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 26
of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934) (hereinafter referred to as
the said Act), the Central Government hereby declares that the specified bank
notes shall cease to be legal tender with effect from the 9th November, 2016.”
Clearly, the RBI had full knowledge about the demonetisation as its own Board
had reportedly passed a resolution to that effect. The RBI had not uploaded
any such resolution on its website till the writing of this news. The RBI Board
has 10 members. Apart from RBI Governor Urjit Patel and three Deputy Governors,
Secretary (Economic Affairs) Shaktikanta Das and Secretary (Financial Services)
Anjali Chib Duggal there are four other independent directors-banker-turned-
economist Dr Nachiket M Mor, who has worked with Wipro of Azim Premji;
Natarajan Chandrasekaran, who has been serving as the CEO and MD of Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS); Bharat Narotam Doshi, Chairman of Mahindra
Intertrade Limited; and Sudhir Mankad, who is Chairman of Gujarat Institute of
Desert Ecology Bhuj, Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar and Vice
President of Charutar Arogya Mandal, Karamsad. He is a member of Board of
Governors of Navrachna University, Vadodara. He assists and advises Pratham,
Gyanshala and America India Foundation in their work in the education sector in
Gujarat. He is currently serving as a member of the Committee to formulate the
New Education Policy. So, some eminent people knew about demonetisation well
before it was announced. It would not be wrong to say it was an open secret.
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