lucknow weddings planned in november might be bereft of the glow of gold this year with over 1500 jewellers shutting shop for an indefinite period for security reasons the sudden ban on older currency led people to throng jewellery shops to invest in gold resulting in violence and chaos at some to maintain law and order lucknow sarrafa association had demanded police protection from district administration but seeing no response shops were shut president of the association ravindra nath rastogi said people are collecting in large numbers at jewellery shops but since we cannot accept their old currency and customers refrain from using atm cards at shops we are unable to sell gold i have seen five marriages getting cancelled because of gold not being soldjewellers pointed out that the weekly withdrawal limit is too less for them to buy raw gold and carry out transactions besides it is high risk for them carry abundant cash to banks for deposit chowk jeweller adeesh jain said banks dont have enough hands to deposit large cash we have to stand in bank queue for long hours only to hear that the staff is already busy so its dangerous to carry so much cash at a time the government should arrange for separate counters for jewellers or else how would we be able to deposit cashsome jewellers also complained that since their business involves large amount of cash and they have to keep some cash ready for emergency they have fallen prey to the new policy a jeweller said when we go to deposit large amount of cash in banks they charge us cash deposit fee i ended up paying rs 1240 for a onetime deposit of rs 975 lakh this is so disappointing he also complained that when so much cash is carried to banks other people oppose that big deposits take too much time the jewellers have decided to keep their shops closed until the police and government comes forward to provide them security and enable secure banking