Attention! RBI to issue new Rs 20 notes soon in greenish-yellow colour: Here’s all you need to know

RBI: Reserve Bank of India will issue ₹ 20 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series. The base colour of the note is Greenish Yellow. All the banknotes in the denomination of ₹ 20 issued by the Reserve Bank in the earlier series will continue to be legal tender. pic.twitter.com/Gfc8OnE3fg

— ANI (@ANI) April 27, 2019

Here’s what all you need to know about the new Rs 20 banknotes:

--First, all the Rs 20 banknotes issued by RBI in the earlier series will be legal even after the launch of the new notes.

--The new note has other designs, geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both at the obverse and reverse.

--The RBI statement also said, the dimension of the new Rs 20 note will be 63 mm x 129 mm.

-- In the front side of the note, it has a see-through register with denominational numeral 100, a latent image with Devanagari version and numeral version.

--The note will also contain a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the centre, with micro letters 'RBI', 'Bharat', 'India' and '20'.

--RBI governor Shaktikanta Das’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. 

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