Around Rs 6,970 crore worth of Rs 2,000 notes remain to be returned to the Reserve Bank of India, almost a year and a half after the central bank officially withdrew this high-denomination currency from circulation. The data from RBI shows that this remaining unreturned currency accounts for only 1.96 per cent of the total Rs 3.96 lakh crore worth of Rs 2,000 notes in circulation as of May 2023. Conversely, 98.04 per cent of these notes have already made their way back to the RBI vault.