<span style="color: #222222;">Government today informed that no requisition for printing currency notes of 2000 rupees has been placed in the last two years. This was stated by Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur in a written reply in Lok Sabha. Mr. Thakur added that 3 thousand 362 million currency notes of rupees 2 thousand denomination were in circulation on 30th March, 2018.  He said that it constituted nearly 3.27 per cent of the currency in terms of volume. However, as on 26th February this year, the volume of the 2000 currency notes has come down at 2.01 per cent of the total currency.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">On a question, whether the government has stopped printing of 2000 rupees note, the Minister said, printing of banknotes of a particular denomination is decided by the centre in consultation with RBI to maintain desired denomination mix for facilitating transactional demand of the public.</span>