Demonstration against cash shortage in Dehradun

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, December 31

Members of the Manorama Dobriyal Sharma Memorial Foundation staged a demonstration outside the RBI office on Rajpur Road here today.

Led by foundation president Asha Manorama Dobriyal Sharma, the demonstrators asserted that despite completion of 53 days of demonetisation, there was still a scarcity of cash in Uttarakhand.

They said several remote villages of Uttarakhand did not have any banking network, making inhabitants of these villages to walk several kilometres to go to the nearest bank.

They said even cashless transactions were a big trouble in cities due to poor internet connectivity. Harjit Singh Minto, DP Singh, Radhika Sharma, Rahul Sehgal and Puja Saxena were among the demonstrators.