RBI Clean Note Policy: Often you get many such notes on which something or the other is written. In such a situation, the question comes to mind that whether the notes on which something is written will be considered invalid.
Nowadays, this news is becoming very viral on social media, in which it is being claimed that if you write something on the new note, it will become invalid. In such a situation, let us know whether its value will end and you cannot use it in the market or there is some other truth.
Quoting the new guidelines of RBI
A news has become increasingly viral on social media, in which it is being claimed that if something is written on a note, it will directly become invalid. Such notes will remain just a piece of paper. In the viral message, citing the new guidelines of RBI (RBI Guidelines for Indian Note), it has been said that writing something on the US dollar becomes invalid. In the same way, if you write something on Indian currency, it will become invalid.
Does writing anything on the banknote make it invalid❓#PIBFactCheck
✔️NO, Bank notes with scribbling are not invalid & continue to be legal tender
✔️Under the Clean Note Policy, people are requested not to write on the currency notes as it defaces them & reduces their life pic.twitter.com/rZj3vgkzMv
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) February 24, 2023
The claim is completely fake
PIB has fact checked the news which is becoming increasingly viral on social media. In this fact check, PIB has found that this news is completely fake. The Fact Check of the Press Information Bureau has given clarification on this matter and said that this news being spread in the name of RBI is wrong. Along with this, it has also been told that writing something on the banknote will not make it invalid.
Avoid writing anything on the note
According to the clean note policy of RBI, the Reserve Bank of India urges people not to write anything on the notes. Along with this, people keep the notes carefully because if they write something on the note, then the life of such notes gets reduced, they get spoiled quickly. In such a situation, then RBI has to change them quickly.
