People in Hyderabad and adjoining Rangareddy and Tandur towns continued to suffer with cashlessness the 45th day of demonetisation — as most of the ATMS in the region remained dry. No lines with most of the ATMs as they had no cash boards
People who spoke to greattelangaana.com said they have been visiting one ATM after the other to get their hands on some cash to meet their daily expenses but had to return empty-handed. Some banks are giving just Rs 6000.
An IT company employee from Cyberabad said even though he has shifted to partial cashlessness by installing eWallet Paytm on his iPhone there are very few people who had swiping machines readily.
“You cannot buy everything by virtual payments, . You need cash to buy small things like a cup of tea or a cigarette,” Nawaz Siddiqi an auto owner said .
He said he roamed around for about two hours in Filmnagar in search of an ATM with cash and he found none.
“I have been out of cash since last week now. I am using Paytm and my debit card for payments, but unfortunately for using those cards, I always need mobile internet and at many places the network is not too strong,” said Sumaltha from image hospitals.
Walnut, a mobile application to track ATMs with cash, showed most of the ATMs in Hyderabad and Secunderabad l region coloured grey, which means there was no cash in them. Very few ATMs on the application flashed green — meaning the machine was loaded with money.
However, some ATMs on the application were orange which meant they were about to exhaust the cash.
Amid ATMs running dry, there was no end in sight to cashlessness pain across India 45 days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8 announced that the government was spiking Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, ostensibly to curb black money, corruption and terror funding.
Modi had asked for 50 days to solve the crisis. But people were mostly upset as they said there were no signs of the situation getting better .
U.Srinivas
Editor
