Russian Ambassador could not eat a decent dinner! Here’s why
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Diplomatic missions of Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Ethiopia and Sudan have also sent protest letters on cash withdrawal restrictions.
"SBI informed the Embassy that the cash withdrawal limit available to the Embassy is now 50,000 per week under the government of India directives with no exceptions unless otherwise advised by the RBI," he wrote. "Such an amount is totally inadequate as regards the embassy's salary and operational expenditure requirements."
Officials in the Russian embassy said that its New Delhi mission has a staff strength of 200 (excluding family members) and with the new withdrawal limit the cash at hand for one person comes to 250 a week.
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A senior diplomat in Delhi said that a number of missions have taken their case to MEA and many more may follow.
A task force of MEA and finance ministry was set up after demonetisation was announced on November 8. Some bank branches have been kept aside for transactions by diplomats so that mission staff can avoid long queues. But foreign diplomats in India say there has to be a solution to the fundamental problem - ceiling on cash withdrawal.
MEA has said it is working to find solution to the problem.
(image: IndiaTimes)
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