Following is a list of areas where the concession to use the denotified Rs 500 and Rs 1, 000 notes for emergency cash needs will cease from the midnight of Nov 24:
- For payments in government hospitals for medical treatment
- For use in all pharmacies for buying medicines with doctor's prescription
- At railway ticketing counters, bus ticket counters of government or public sector undertakings and airline counters at airports for purchase of tickets
- For purchases at consumer cooperative stores operated under authorisation of central or state governments with identity proof (Safal, Mother Dairy)
- For purchases at milk booths under central or state governments
- For purchase of petrol, diesel and gas at stations of state - run oil companies
- For payments at crematoria and burial grounds
- For use at international airports for arriving and departing passengers up to Rs 5, 000
- For foreign tourists to exchange foreign currency up to Rs 5, 000
- For purchase of LPG gas cylinders
- For payments towards on - board catering during travel by rail
- For purchase of tickets for suburban and metro rail travel
- For purchase of entry tickets monument maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India
- For payments towards fees, charges, taxes or penalties, payable to central or state governments including municipal and local bodies
- For payments towards utility charges including water and electricity, but no advance payments
- For payments towards court fees
- For payments towards purchase of seeds from designated state - run outlets, but only Rs 500 notes
- Withdrawal from district central cooperative banks up to Rs 24, 000 per week.
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