500 Rupee Note Update: 500 rupee note with the photo of Lord Shri Ram is trending on social media and it is being said that it will be launched on January 22.
500 Rupee Note: Is the banking sector regulator Reserve Bank of India going to issue a new series of Rs 500 notes with pictures of Lord Shri Ram on January 22, 2024? Is RBI going to issue Rs 500 note with pictures of Lord Shri Ram and the Ram temple being built in Ayodhya? As the consecration of Lord Shri Ram’s temple is going to take place in Ayodhya on January 22, the photo of Rs 500 note along with the pictures of Lord Shri Ram and the Ram temple being built in Ayodhya is continuously going viral on social media.
There is a picture of Shri Ram instead of Mahatma Gandhi.
If we look at the Rs 500 note with pictures of Lord Shri Ram and Shri Ram temple in Ayodhya on social media, while the Rs 500 note has the picture of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, the Rs 500 note going viral has the picture of Lord Shri Ram and the note. Where there is a photo of the Red Fort, there is a photo of the Ram temple being built in Ayodhya. A note of Rs 500 with the photo of Lord Shri Ram is trending on social media.
Is RBI issuing new series notes?
On one hand, this note is going viral, but no information has come to the fore about the release of new series of Rs 500 notes having the picture of Lord Shri Ram by the Reserve Bank of India. According to sources, the Rs 500 note going viral with pictures of Lord Shri Ram is fake. Banking sector expert and founder of Voice of Banking, Ashwani Rana said, no such announcement has been made nor any information given by RBI. He said that this is a fake news. RBI is not going to issue any such new Rs 500 series notes.
RBI has already denied this
This is not the first time that a new series of Rs 500 notes has been issued with some other picture in place of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi. In June 2022, it was being reported that RBI is considering printing a new series of notes with the pictures of Rabindranath Tagore and Missile Man former President APJ Kalam by replacing the picture of Mahatma Gandhi in the existing currency and bank notes. After which RBI had to come forward to deny this news. Then RBI had said that no such proposal is before RBI.
