hyderabad while banks kickstarted exchange of 2000 denomination notes in the city on tuesday a majority of the customers preferred to deposit them instead of exchanging them for other denominations on day 1 almost all the banks including the reserve bank of india rbi office in saifabad did not have any long queues looking to exchange 2000 notes not surprisingly most of the people who turned up for exchanges and deposits happened to be retailersafter the announcement some of our regular customers turned up to get change for their 2000 denomination and we were happy to oblige this is the second time i am depositing some money consisting of 2000 notes in the last three days manoj prabhakar who runs a jewellery shop at koti told toi kishore kumar a techie residing in saifabad turned up to exchange a few 2000 notes at rbi counter demonetised or not it has become a hassle to exchange 2000 notes at retail shops the denominations i am exchanging have been lying with me for months kumar saidbank officials have been receiving most 2000 notes via cash deposit machines and at deposit counters there is no panic to exchange the currency notes the majority are keen on depositing them in their bank accounts since there is time till september 30 there isnt any rush we are ready to open additional counters to manage the rush if it happens sbis deputy general manager satyanarayana panigrahi told toi bank officials from major branches such as hdfc bank in lakdikapul canara bank in ameerpet and sbi in koti saw a handful of depositors during morning after this there hasnt been much activity at counters we didnt see much activity in terms of exchanges till 1230pm no one turned up to exchange over 10 notes but we expect more to turn up in coming days hdfc bank official said