Table of Contents
- 1 Why are there only 17 languages on Indian currency notes?
- 2 What is the reason for printing different languages in the rupee note?
- 3 What is written on 20 rupees note?
- 4 Why Nepali language is used in Indian currency?
- 5 How is money printed in India?
- 6 What are the 17 languages in Indian currency?
- 7 Why are there 17 languages on a note?
- 8 How many languages are printed on Chinese banknotes?
Why are there only 17 languages on Indian currency notes?
According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) website, 17 languages are printed on an Indian note. No language has got the status of a national language in the Indian Constitution and 22 languages are spoken in the country. In such a situation, all these languages have been given priority over the note.
What is the reason for printing different languages in the rupee note?
The Constitution of India designates the official language of the Government of India as Hindi and English. Hindi is used for official purposes such as parliamentary proceedings, judiciary, communications between the Central Government and a State Government.
How many languages are used to print the currency value of a note?
Contemporary Currency notes have 15 languages on the panel which appear on the reverse of the note.
What are the 15 languages written on Indian currency?
The language panel on Indian rupee banknotes display the denomination of the note in 15 of the 22 official languages of India . They are from top to bottom – Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.
What is written on 20 rupees note?
Design. The ₹20 banknote of the Mahatma Gandhi Series is 129 × 63 mm green-yellow coloured, with the obverse side featuring a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi with a signature of the governor of Reserve Bank of India.
Why Nepali language is used in Indian currency?
Nepali language, originally belongs to the Indo – Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the 22 official language of India , incorporated in the 8th schedule of the Constitution of India. The official language of Nepal, it is spoken in some north eastern parts of India.
What are the languages in 10 rupee note?
Languages included on the panel are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
What is the official language of India?
Hindi
English
India/Official languages
How is money printed in India?
Bank notes are printed at four currency presses, two of which are owned by the Government of India through its Corporation, Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd. (SPMCIL) and two are owned by the Reserve Bank, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Ltd.
What are the 17 languages in Indian currency?
The amount of a banknote is written on it in 17 languages out of 22 official languages (+ English) of India. The languages are Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
How many languages are there in 100 rupees note?
17 languages
As like the other Indian rupee banknotes, the ₹100 banknote has its amount written in 17 languages. On the obverse, the denomination is written in English and Hindi. On the reverse is a language panel which displays the denomination of the note in 15 of the 22 official languages of India.
What is Hampi in 50 rs note?
The new version of the note has a depiction of Hampi with Chariot on the reverse, depicting the country’s cultural heritage. The base colour of the note is Fluorescent blue.
TL, DR- There seems to be no reason. There are only 16 languages from the Eight Schedule that are present on the Indian currency. If you include English, then it becomes 17, but then English is not a part of the Eighth Schedule. Of these languages Sindhi, Manipuri, Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali are not present on the Indian Rupee.
Why are there 17 languages on a note?
We cant practically put each and ever language on the note. That is the reason only 17, most widely spoken languages are taken into consideration. If you have noticed that the languages on the notes are the officially chosen language of each state. Each state has their official language on the note.
How many languages are printed on Chinese banknotes?
Since there are also hundreds of mutually unintelligible Sinitic topolects, one might say that there are far more than 56 different languages in China. Be that as it may, 5 of these have been chosen to be printed on Chinese national banknotes: Han, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Zhuang (after Han,…
How many languages are on the Indian rupee?
If you include English, then it becomes 17, but then English is not a part of the Eighth Schedule. Of these languages Sindhi, Manipuri, Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali are not present on the Indian Rupee. So this makes 16 languages from the Eighth Schedule plus English, the 17 languages present on the Indian currency.