The RBI has announced that it will shortly issue Rs 20 denomination banknotes, in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) series, bearing the signature of the central bank’s governor Shaktikanta Das.

The RBI clarified that all the banknotes in the denomination of Rs 20 issued by it in the earlier series will continue to be legal tender.

The note has other designs, geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both at the obverse and reverse.The obverse side of the note contains a see-through register with denominational numeral 100, a latent image with the numeral and also a Devanagari version of the same.