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New one rupee notes to be introduced by the RBI

| | Mar 30, 2016, at 07:12 pm
Mumbai, Mar 30 (IBNS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Tuesday that it will soon put into circulation currency notes of one rupee denomination and the existing currency notes in this denomination in circulation will also continue to be legal tender.
The design of the One Rupee currency note will be as under:
 
On the obverse side, it will  contain the words ‘भारत सरकार’ above the words “Government of India” with the bilingual signature of Ratan P. Watal, Finance Secretary and with the replica of New Rupee One coin with ₹ symbol of 2016 issued with ‘सत्‍यमेव जयते’ and capital insert letter ‘L’ in numbering panel. The numbering will be in black at right hand bottom portion of the note.
 
On the reverse side, it will contain the words ‘भारत सरकार’ above the words “Government of India” with the year 2016 on the representation of One Rupee coin with ₹ symbol having floral design and the surrounding design will consist of the picture of ‘Sagar Samrat’ - the oil exploration platform and with the authentic rendering of value in fifteen Indian language in language panel and the year figure shown on the centre bottom in international number.
 
There will be multi tonal watermarks :
(i) Ashoka Pillar in the window without words ‘सत्‍यमेव जयते’
(ii) Hidden Numeral ‘1’ in the centre
(iii) Hidden Word ‘भारत’ vertically arranged on right hand side.
 
The colour of one Rupee Currency Note will be predominantly pink green on obverse and reverse in combination with others.
#Reserve Bank of India # RBI # Rupee coin

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