500 rupee note
500 rupee notes these days social The discussion on media has intensified. social It is being posted on the media that notes of Rs 500 will stop being available in ATMs from March 2026. Why is this issue being raised now? How much truth is there in this and the government of Fact Check Let’s see what the agency has said on this. details Understand.
Actually, the government had talked about promoting small notes last year. on this matter banks was told that They Number of small notes in ATM increase Go. The government said that banks should increase the number of small notes like Rs 100, 200 in ATMs. After this it was also implemented in banks. However, this did not at all mean that the government had talked about banning Rs 500 notes.
what is the reality
Now social Government’s response to this claim being made on media Fact The Czech agency has rejected it outright. Fact It is said in the check that all this is going on. Is completely baseless. The government has no plans to demonetise the Rs 500 note. Nor has it been said to remove these notes from the ATM.
RBI to stop ₹500 notes from ATMs by March 2026❓🤔
Some social media posts claim that the Reserve Bank of India will discontinue the circulation of ₹500 notes by March 2026.#PIBFactCheck,
❌This claim is #fake,
@RBI has made NO such announcement.
✅ ₹500 notes have pic.twitter.com/F0Y3t0wHSf
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) January 2, 2026
500 rupee note is legal Tender
government’s Fact check agency PIB It also clarified that Rs 500 notes are still legal They are tender, that is, the use of these notes for transactions is completely valid as before. The government has appealed to the people that social Do not trust the unverified and misleading news circulating in the media. Before sharing any information official source Please confirm it with. This is not the first time that such rumors have spread regarding Rs 500 notes. many times before demonetization Or claims have been made regarding demonetization of Rs 500 notes, which have been rejected by the government. even in june PIB by X But it was made clear that in March 2026 the alleged demonetization The claims related to this are completely false and this is just an attempt to mislead people.