PANAJI
Left with little Indian currency in their pockets, foreign tourists had to skip the Anjuna flea market, which happens every Wednesday.
An European tourist, on condition of anonymity, said, “We are facing a big problem as no one is accepting `500 and `1,000 notes. We stay in a flat in Goa every year for few months. We cook our own food. Therefore, our daily requirements are few, which don’t cost much. Now, if we go to a supermarket to buy stuff worth Rs 50, no one is going to accept Rs 500 notes.”
Pravin Babu a tourist from Mumbai, said, “We arrived yesterday and we had just `600 in cash. We can pay the hotel by using our credit cards, but we need cash for everything else, even for a bottle of water. We have a kid with us, who may need something. We have very little cash in hand. This has caused us a lot of inconvenience.”
Steven Johnston, a tourist from UK, said, “There is no way we can get Sterling converted into rupee. All
we have is in `500 and `1,000 notes, which no one are
accepting.”
