Five hidden features of Rs 2,000 note!

On Tuesday, 8th Nov 2016, honourable prime minister of India Narendra Modi bought a big news for country. In his 40-minute speech on national television, honourable prime minister took a firm step on corruption and black money by banning Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. This news made a hurry-scurry situation throughout the country. All in the middle of this news of brand new crisp 2000 Rs note has came out.

Five hidden features to check authenticity of note-

New 2000 rs note pic - TOI

1. There is a Ashoka pillar emblem to the right of the Mahatma Gandhi portrait and electrotype (2000) watermarks. It also have seven bleed lines and a rectangle as an identifying shape, as per the RBI guidelines, these are the identification and salient features for the visually impaired.

2. There is a windowed security thread with the inscriptions ‘Bharat’, RBI and 2000 on notes with colour shift. The colour of the thread changes from green to blue when the note is tilted.

3. According to sources, the security features of the new note include latent images, coloured strip security threads and watermarks. 

4. There is also a latent image with the denomination numeral 2000 that would be visible when the note is held at a 45 degree angle at eye level.

5. The new note have a see-through register with denominational numeral 2000, which can be visible when the currency is held against light.

Apart from this there was a rumour of notes being embedded with nano Gps chip(NGC), which can help to locate the position of note via a satellite system, RBI denied this news. There is no such chip in new note.

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