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Like the other Indian rupee banknotes, the ₹ 1000 banknote had its value written in 17 languages. On the obverse, the denomination was written in English and Hindi . On the reverse is a language panel which displayed the denomination of the note in 15 of the 22 official languages of India , displayed in alphabetical order.
Banknotes of the Indian rupee include: Lion Capital Series: Banknotes of the Indian rupee printed between 1962 and 2000. Mahatma Gandhi Series: Banknotes of the Indian rupee printed between 1996 and 2018. Mahatma Gandhi New Series: Banknotes of the Indian rupee printed from 2016 to present.
Banknotes of denominations of ₹5, ₹10, ₹20, ₹50, ₹100, ₹500 and ₹1000 of the Mahatma Gandhi Series. The Gandhi Series of banknotes are issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as the legal tender of Indian rupee. The series is so called because the obverse of the banknotes prominently display the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi.
After the enactment of the paper currency act in 1861, a series of banknotes and coins were issued in the honor of Queen Victoria in 1862 with her portrait on them. [5] As the business of counterfeit notes increased, this new chain was introduced in 1867 and was divided into 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1,000 and 10,000 rupees notes.
SPMCIL consists of two currency printing presses: the Currency Note Press (CNP) in Nashik and the Bank Note Press (BNP) in Dewas. New production lines are also set up in Mysore and Salboni. The two units are engaged in the production of banknotes for India as well as a few foreign countries including Iraq, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bhutan ...
It made a world record by printing more than 20,000 million pieces of bank notes in financial year 2016–17, It has its own design cell. It has the capability to print all the denominations of Indian bank notes. The other two bank note presses of SPMCIL are Currency Note Press Nashik Road, and Bank Note Presses Dewas.
[2]: 5 By the end of 1947, out of a total of Rs. 143.97 crore of high denomination banknotes, notes of the value of Rs. 134.90 crore were exchanged and notes worth Rs. 9.07 crore went out of circulation or were not exchanged. [6]: 34 It is pertinent to note that this action was opposed by the then Governor of RBI, Shri C.D. Deshmukh.
On 28 October 2016, the total banknotes in circulation in India were valued at ₹17.77 trillion; what proportion of this derived from ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes was unknown. In its annual report of March 2016, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) stated that total banknotes in circulation valued ₹16.42 trillion, of which nearly 86% (around ...