RBI to issue Rs 10 denomination bank notes

CHANDIGARH: Reserve Bank of India today said it will shortly issue Rs 10 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005.

"It will incorporate rupee symbol on the obverse and the reverse, with inset letter 'N' in both the numbering panels, bearing the signature of Raghuram G Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India and the year of printing '2014' printed on the reverse of the Banknote," an RBI release said.

The design of these notes to be issued now is similar in all respects to Rs 10 Banknotes in Mahatma Gandhi Series- 2005 issued earlier, it said.

All the banknotes in the denomination of Rs 10 issued by the bank in the past will continue to be legal tender, it further said.