The Reserve Bank today said it will issue new currency notes of ₹20 and ₹50 denominations with numerals in ascending size in the number panels and without intaglio printing.
The old notes of ₹20 and ₹50 will remain legal tender.
These new notes come against the backdrop of government last month scrapping ₹500, ₹1000 currency notes to crack down on black money.
“The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue ₹20 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005, with inset letter ‘L’ in both the number panels, bearing signature of Dr Urjit R Patel, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, and the year of printing ‘2016’ printed on the reverse of the banknote,” RBI said in a statement.
The design and security features of these banknotes will be similar to the banknotes of ₹20 denomination with the ascending font of numerals in both the number panels and without intaglio print issued earlier in Mahatma Gandhi Series- 2005, it said.
RBI also said that all the banknotes in the denomination of ₹20 issued by the Bank in the past will continue to be legal tender.
About ₹50 notes RBI said, “The Reserve Bank will shortly issue ₹50 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005, without inset letter in both the number panels, bearing signature of Dr Urjit R Patel, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, and the year of printing ‘2016’ printed on the reverse of the banknote.”
It said that the design and security features of these banknotes will be similar to the banknotes of ₹50 denomination with the ascending font of numerals in both the number panels and without intaglio print issued earlier in Mahatma Gandhi Series- 2005.
All the banknotes in the denomination of ₹50 issued by the Bank in the past will continue to be legal tender, it added.