New lavender-hued Rs 100 note on the way

The Rs 100 rupee currency note is soon to get a makeover. According to a press release from the Reserve Bank of India RBI, the new note will be in lavender colour and will feature the motif of the ‘Rani-Ki-Vav’ (The Queen’s Stepwell), a Unesco world heritage site in Gujarat. The currency, whose dimension will be 66mm × 142mm, will also have the Swachh Bharat logo just like the other notes that were reissued after demonetisation. The central bank has not given the date of release, but said it will be released soon. All the Rs 100 banknotes issued earlier will continue to be legal tender.

Here are some of the features of the new note:

See through register with denominational numeral 100

Latent image with denominational numeral 100

Denominational numeral १०० in Devanagari

Micro letters ‘RBI’, ‘भारत’, ‘India’ and ‘100’

Windowed security thread with inscriptions ‘भारत’ and RBI with colour shift: colour of the thread changes from green to blue when the note is tilted

Guarantee clause, the RBI governor’s signature with promise clause and RBI emblem towards right of Mahatma Gandhi portrait