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Question is, was it worth it? Weren't there easier ways to increase Digital payments? Better ways to make people put money into banks?

Was it worth killing people? http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/17/day-9-demonetisation...

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Was it worth extending the status quo where around 1 percent of the population pays any tax at all because of the rampant black market economy? (12.5 million people paid any tax at all on a population of 1.23 billion, source - https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/03/guess-how-many-people-pay-ta...).

'Killing people' makes it sounds like they were shooting anyone who objected, but that article does do a good job of documenting the human cost of economic dislocation. The abrupt and absolute change appears to have given rise to numerous avoidable problems.

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