The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue `100 denomination  Banknotes with "R" inset letter incorporating "`" symbol, in the  Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005  bearing the  signature  of Dr. D. Subbarao, Governor , Reserve Bank of India, and  the year of printing on the reverse of the Banknote.

The design of these notes to be issued now is similar in all respects to the Banknotes of `100 in Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005 issued earlier.

All the Banknotes in the denomination of `100 issued by the Bank in the past will continue to be legal tender.

Ajit Prasad
Assistant General Manager

Press Release: 2011-2012/1157