RBI to issue new series of 10-rupees: Where is plastic-currency
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 09.03.2017 announced issue of new banknotes of 10-rupees denomination in the Mahatma Gandhi series-2005 with inset letter 'L' on both number panels, bearing the signature of Governor Urjit Patel.
But the then Union Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena in UPA regime in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on 12.03.2013 had stated that Union Government and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had decided to issue polymer/plastic currency-notes of rupee-ten denomination on trial basis. Even present central government in a post-demonetisation decision declared to issue plastic currency.
Non-implementation of the decision even after four-years, puts a question-mark on currency-production both by RBI and central government with so many public-sector undertakings ...