Partha Sinha, TNN | Sep 26, 2015, 05.14AM IST
Source: Times of India
MUMBAI: In a move aimed at both helping the visually challenged and outsmarting counterfeiters, the Reserve Bank of India will use Braille-like markings on currency notes of Rs 100, Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations. From now on, Rs 100 notes will have four parallel angular lines printed along the border and just beside the Mahatma Gandhi watermark. The Rs 500 notes will have five lines while the Rs 1,000 notes will have six.
State-of-the-art intaglio printing will be used in which the security paper is perforated and printing ink incised into the paper, allowing users to feel the lines.
"When touched, it gives a feeling that the lines are raised from the surface of the note...this printing technique is one of the toughest to copy for those involved in making counterfeit notes," an RBI official said.
Visually challenged people will be able to feel these lines more easily to recognize the value of the note while others can see and tell a genuine from a fake. This latest security feature is also in line with the government's endeavour to make all currency notes recognizable to the visually challenged, a move announced in the 2014 Budget.
These new security features are in addition to the numbering with exploding font -the print size of each number on numbering panel on the note ascend in size from left to right -that the RBI introduced in June this year. The central bank has also increased the size of the existing identification marks on these currency notes by 50% so that it is easier for visually challenged people to recognize each note, the RBI said. As of now, each Rs 100 currency note has a triangle printed beside the watermark, a Rs 500 has a circle while a Rs 1,000 note features a diamond.
All new currency notes of these three denominations will have these signs in bigger sizes, also in intaglio printing. All the existing currency notes will continue to be in circulation, the central bank said. RBI has informed all banks about the new security features so that the the public is not inconvenienced, and has also directed the banks to recalibrate note sorting and counterfeit detection machines as per these new features.
Source: Times of India
MUMBAI: In a move aimed at both helping the visually challenged and outsmarting counterfeiters, the Reserve Bank of India will use Braille-like markings on currency notes of Rs 100, Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations. From now on, Rs 100 notes will have four parallel angular lines printed along the border and just beside the Mahatma Gandhi watermark. The Rs 500 notes will have five lines while the Rs 1,000 notes will have six.
State-of-the-art intaglio printing will be used in which the security paper is perforated and printing ink incised into the paper, allowing users to feel the lines.
"When touched, it gives a feeling that the lines are raised from the surface of the note...this printing technique is one of the toughest to copy for those involved in making counterfeit notes," an RBI official said.
Visually challenged people will be able to feel these lines more easily to recognize the value of the note while others can see and tell a genuine from a fake. This latest security feature is also in line with the government's endeavour to make all currency notes recognizable to the visually challenged, a move announced in the 2014 Budget.
These new security features are in addition to the numbering with exploding font -the print size of each number on numbering panel on the note ascend in size from left to right -that the RBI introduced in June this year. The central bank has also increased the size of the existing identification marks on these currency notes by 50% so that it is easier for visually challenged people to recognize each note, the RBI said. As of now, each Rs 100 currency note has a triangle printed beside the watermark, a Rs 500 has a circle while a Rs 1,000 note features a diamond.
All new currency notes of these three denominations will have these signs in bigger sizes, also in intaglio printing. All the existing currency notes will continue to be in circulation, the central bank said. RBI has informed all banks about the new security features so that the the public is not inconvenienced, and has also directed the banks to recalibrate note sorting and counterfeit detection machines as per these new features.
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