NEW DELHI: More than a third of India’s 202,000 automated teller machines (ATMs) have been recalibrated to dispense new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 currency notes, which is expected to ease the pressure on banks struggling to meet demand.The ATMs are being recalibrated at the rate of around 10,200 a day, which means that the entire process should be over in the next 10-12 days before November salaries are credited to accounts and withdrawal pressure peaks, officials said.They pegged the number of tweaked machines at 65,000-70,000. The government may review the Rs 2,000 currency exchange limit next week, depending on whether around 80% of the ATMs have been recalibrated, said the people cited above.The government is pushing the banks to speed up adjustments to the machines.A senior government official confirmed that an informal target of recalibrating at least 12,000 ATMs a day has been given to the banks by the working group looking into the issue.“There are around 2,000 engineers who are working on it. We are hopeful to get the remainder done in the next two weeks,” he said.The new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes are of smaller size than the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, respectively, therefore each machine has to be reprogrammed to dispense them.When the demonetisation decision was announced, the ATMs could issue only Rs 100 notes and as a result they ran out of cash quickly, resulting in long queues.With more recalibrated ATMs going live and the daily limit of Rs 2,500 per card, the situation has improved somewhat in the urban centres.The government is also urging banks to improve logistics by sharing cash with others.“We are facing some problem on inter and intra-chest issues. But that also will soon be resolved,” said one of the officials cited above, adding it has been brought to the government’s notice that banks are not sharing the new currency with their regional rural banks or even among themselves.There have also been some discussions on interoperability of ewallets, which will speed up the use of digital transactions.“Any decision on this issue will be taken up by the RBI,” said another official aware of deliberations.