Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a key announcement in his fight against black money that Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes would no longer be legal tender, but one part of the new system didn’t come completely out of the blue. From past few days new Rs 2,000 notes have been floating around the internet. Modi said that these notes will be circulated soon. However, there are rumours on these notes prior to the issue of the notes.

According to the rumours, which were circulating on WhatsApp even before the demonetization announcement, the new notes would come with what is variously described as a “micro nano GPS chip”, which is supposed to be able to help track individual notes by way of satellite.

However, RBI announced the new 2000 rupee note and the rumoured nano-GPS chip for tracking are missing from the features.

Salient Features Of The Rs. 2000 Note:

There are a few interesting elements to the new note. Besides the colour, it will include a picture of Mangalyaan, the Indian spacecraft that made it all the way to Mars. Here are the features of the note which don’t involve any technology.

Front:

1. See-through register with denominational numeral 2000
2. Latent image with denominational numeral 2000
3. Denominational numeral २००० in Devnagari
4. Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the centre
5. Micro letters ‘RBI’ and ‘2000’ on the left side of the banknote
6. Windowed security thread with inscriptions ‘भारत’, RBI and 2000 on banknotes with colour shift. Colour of the thread changes from green to blue when the note is tilted
7. Guarantee Clause, Governor’s signature with Promise Clause and RBI emblem towards right
8. Denominational numeral with Rupee Symbol, ₹2000 in colour changing ink (green to blue) on bottom right
9. Ashoka Pillar emblem on the right
10. Mahatma Gandhi portrait and electrotype (2000) watermarks
11. Number panel with numerals growing from small to big on the top left side and bottom right side

For visually impaired: Intaglio or raised printing of Mahatma Gandhi portrait, Ashoka Pillar emblem, bleed lines and identity mark

12. Horizontal rectangle with ₹2000 in raised print on the right
13. Seven angular bleed lines on left and right side in raised print

On the back

1. Year of printing of the note on the left
2. Swachh Bharat logo with slogan
2. Language panel towards the centre
3. Motif of Mangalayan
4. Denominational numeral २००० in Devnagari
5. Dimension of the banknote will be 66 mm × 166 mm

Although the technology appears to be possible it also might not yet be affordable enough to actually put on currency, even high-denomination notes.