New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday 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 new Rs. 20 note is greenish-yellow in colour, the central bank said in a statement.
“The new banknote has a motif of Ellora Caves on the reverse, depicting the country’s cultural heritage,” the RBI added. All the banknotes in the denomination of Rs. 20 issued by the RBI in the earlier series will also continue to be legal tender, it further clarified.
The new Rs. 20 note has designs, geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both at the obverse (front) and reverse (back). The dimension of the new Rs. 20 note is 63 mm x 129 mm, RBI said in its statement.
The obverse side of the note contains a see-through register with denominational numeral 100. The observe side of new Rs. 20 note also contains 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 a guarantee clause, Governor”s signature with Promise Clause and RBI emblem towards the right of Gandhi”s portrait, RBI further said.
