Don't worry! These places still accept Rs 500, Rs 1000 notes

New Delhi - Areas where concession on use of denotified notes ends at midnight of Nov 24

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.