Export and Import of Currency
Presently, a resident individual can take outside India or having gone out of India on a temporary visit, bring into India (other than to and from Nepal and Bhutan) Indian currency notes up to an amount not exceeding Rs. 7,500.
This circular has increased this limit from Rs. 7,500 to Rs. 10,000. As a result, any person resident in India:
i) Can take outside India (other than to Nepal and Bhutan) Indian currency notes up to an amount not exceeding Rs. 10,000 (rupees ten thousand only); and
ii) Who had gone out of India on a temporary visit, can bring into India at the time of his return from any place outside India (other than from Nepal and Bhutan), Indian currency notes up to an amount not exceeding Rs. 10,000 (rupees ten thousand only).