Rs. 20 Currency New Note Design Mahatma gandhi Series

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that it will shortly issue Rs 20 denomination banknotes, in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) series, bearing the signature of the central bank’s governor Shaktikanta Das. “The Rs 20 note will be greenish-yellow in colour.

The new banknote has a motif of Ellora Caves on the reverse, depicting the country’s cultural heritage,” a statement by the RBI said. All the banknotes in the denomination of Rs 20 issued by the RBI in the earlier series will continue to be legal tender, it clarified. The note has other designs, geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both at the obverse and reverse. The dimension of the new Rs 20 note will be 63 mm x 129 mm, the statement said.

The obverse (front) side of the note contains a see-through register with denominational numeral 100, a latent image with the numeral and also a Devanagari version of the same. It also contains a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the centre, with micro letters ‘RBI’, ‘Bharat’, ‘India’ and ‘20′, along with with a guarantee clause, Governor’s signature with Promise Clause and RBI emblem towards the right of Gandhi’s portrait. On the right side of the portrait are — an Ashoka Pillar emblem and electrotype (20) watermarks.

RBI Introduces ₹ 20 banknote in Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series

The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue ₹ 20 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi
(New) Series, bearing signature of Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India. The
new denomination has motif of Ellora Caves on the reverse, depicting the country’s cultural
heritage. The base colour of the note is Greenish Yellow. The note has other designs, geometric
patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both at the obverse and reverse.
All the banknotes in the denomination of ₹ 20 issued by the Reserve Bank in the earlier series will
continue to be legal tender.

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