The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue ` 1000 denomination Banknotes incorporating " ` "  symbol, without inset letter, in the Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005 bearing the signature of Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, and  the year of printing 2014 printed on the reverse  of the Banknote.

The design of these notes to be issued now is similar in all respects to the `1000 Banknotes in Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005, issued earlier.

All the Banknotes in the denomination of ` 1000 issued by the Bank in the past will continue to be legal tender.

S. K. Gaonkar
Assistant Manager

Press Release: 2013-2014/2148