Month after note ban: Noida woman faints in queue for cash

A woman, in a long queue outside a bank near a Metro station here, fainted after suffering an epileptic seizure on Thursday morning. Across the country millions continued to experience hardships due to cashless ness, a month after the government announced demonetisation of high value currency notes.

The woman, apparently in her late 20s, with an Aadhaar card in her hand, suddenly started feeling dizzy, convulsed and collapsed on the road. This correspondent was present and saw the woman get epileptic seizure outside the Axis Bank near the Sector 16 Metro station.

A group of Good Samaritans stepped out the queue and rushed to help her. Some of them began rubbing her hands and feet till she revived some 10 minutes after she lost her consciousness. The woman later quietly walked away and didn’t resume her place in the queue to await her turn and withdraw money from the bank. 

Long queues of cash-starved men and women outside banks and ATM kiosks have become ubiquitous across the country since the government on November 8 decided to spike nearly 86 per cent of the currency notes — of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 value — in circulation to fight black money, corruption and terror financing.