HYDERABAD : Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu may be a partner in the NDA government at the centre, but it was Telangana chief minister and TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao who managed to extract the larger share of the new currency notes from the Reserve Bank of India post demonetisation of high value notes on November 8.Without raising a shindy , Telangana in the last two days received another Rs 1600 crore currency from the RBI , thus taking the total money received by the state since demonetisation to Rs 20,704 crore.Of the Rs 1600 crore, the state has received Rs 480 crore in the denomination of `500 and Rs 100. The state had earlier received Rs 19,104 crore but mostly in the denomination of Rs 2000. With the latest dispatch, the currency crisis in major parts of Telangana is expected to ease.Though Telangana has less population and is smaller geographically compared to Andhra Pradesh, it has managed to get more currency than its neighbor post demonetization. While the Andhra Pradesh till date received Rs 14,740 crore, Telangana received almost `6700 crore more than AP.Telangana government sources said KCR has been in constant touch with his finance department who in turn chased RBI authorities to ensure regular currency supply to the state. KCR during his recent meeting with Arun Jaitley requested Rs 500 crore worth notes in the smaller denomination to bail out the change problem. Acting on his request, the RBI has sent Rs 480 crore in small bills within a week.“The real reason for Chandrababu Naidu's displeasure displayed in Vijayawada on Tuesday was that Telangana has been given more currency than Andhra Pradesh. Despite the fact that AP has more than 5.5 crore population compared to 3.8 crore of Telangana, the latter has been regularly supplied new notes in all denominations,“ said a senior official in the Telangana government.After meeting Arun Jaitley, KCR had written two letters to the RBI reminding the importance of Hyderabad city as a major consumption centre in the country . He told the bank that Hyderabad city controls over 35 per cent of the economy of the state because of which it should be given priority in currency supply .Subsequently , chief secretary K Pradeep Chandra and principal finance secretary K Ramakrishna Rao followed up the issue with the RBI on a daily basis by giving supply and demand information related to four major commercial zones, Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Nizamabad. The state level bankers committee was taken into confidence to exert more pressure on the apex bank.“We have been assured of another Rs1500 crore this weekend. In anticipation of this, we have asked banks to reopen all ATMs that were closed for want of lower denomination currency ,“ said an official of the finance department.