Varnish-coated new 100-rupee notes to be issued with no clue of plastic-currency as announced on 12.03.2013 in Rajya Sabha
It refers to welcome news about new 100-rupee notes to be issued with special varnish-coating for increasing life of notes and making it difficult to write on notes or fold these. But there is still no clue of ten-rupee notes of plastic being issued as was announced long back by the then Union Minister of Finance Namo Narain Meena on 12.03.2013 in a written reply in Rajya Sabha.
Reserve Bank of India should direct its subsidiaries for simultaneous working on plastic-currency so that plastic-notes in denominations of rupees ten and twenty may be simultaneously issued with varnish-coated notes of 100-rupee notes, to make a comparison so that plastic or varnish-coated currency may be issued for notes of all denominations rather than some selected ones for ultimate decrease in cost of curre...









