Parliamentary panel meet begins, RBI Governor to brief on demonetisation

A crucial meeting of Parliament’s standing committee on finance over the demonetisation issue began in New Delhi on Monday morning with Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel expected to brief it on the matter. Senior bureaucrats, including Department of Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikant Das, Banking Secretary Anjuly Chib Duggal and Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia, and top bank honchos like Chanda Kochhar of ICICI Bank and Usha Ananthasubramanian of Punjab National Bank are also to appear before the committee headed by Congress leader Veerappa Moily.