New Delhi: In India, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gave banknotes have been conveying a watermark of only one conspicuous figure, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the father of the nation. Yet, in what could be a first, the RBI purportedly could consider presenting watermarks of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and eleventh Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam.
The Finance Ministry alongside the RBI could before long examine presenting the watermark of one of the best Indian journalists and the Missile Man of India on another series of the banknotes of a couple of divisions, as indicated by a report by the New Indian Express.
The report additionally called attention to that the RBI and the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India (SPMCIL) have sent two different example sets including watermarks of the three unmistakable figures to IIT-Delhi Emeritus Professor Dilip T Shahani.
The teacher has been supposedly approached to choose a set from the two choices. The chose set will be introduced before the government for definite thought.
It is essential to take note of that up to this point, RBI gave notes have never utilized a picture or watermark of some other significant character, other than Mahatma Gandhi.
Further, sources cited in the report, guided out that an official conclusion toward pick one or every one of the three watermarks will be taken at the ‘most significant level’. At this point, no substantial choice has been taken.
In any case, this isn’t the initial time when the RBI is thinking about adding the watermarks of additional conspicuous figures to banknotes. Sources in the report featured that a RBI inner board proposed adding watermarks of Tagore and Kalam on Rs 2000 banknotes close by Gandhi’s.
