Lakhs of people deposited over R10 lakh in their bank accounts after PM Modi’s note ban move on November 8. Representational Pic

Demonetisation brought in a lot of work for the income tax department, what with lakhs of people depositing more than Rs 10 lakh in their bank accounts in Mumbai and coming on the I-T radar. And the department has been struggling with the workload due to acute shortage of manpower. The reason being promotions have been held up since the last one year — inspectors are promoted to the rank of officers, who are the ones who have to look into cases of unaccounted for income and deposits.