Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran

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Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran (BRBNM) is a

Security Printing & Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL), a statutory body wholly owned by Government of India.[1] BRBNMPL has two presses in Mysuru and Salboni.[2][3]
The present capacity for both the presses is 16 billion note pieces per year on a two-shift basis.

Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran
Company typeSpecialised Division of Reserve Bank of India
IndustryMint
Founded3 February 1995 (29 years ago) (1995-02-03), Bangalore
HeadquartersBangalore
OwnerReserve Bank of India, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
Websitewww.brbnmpl.co.in

It made a world record by printing more than 20,000 million pieces of bank notes in financial year 2016–17, It has its own design cell. It has the capability to print all the denominations of Indian bank notes. The other two bank note presses of SPMCIL are Currency Note Press Nashik Road, and Bank Note Presses Dewas.

History

Until 1928, Indian currency was printed by De La Rue, a British banknote manufacturing company. The Indian Security Press at Nashik was commissioned by the British Indian Government in the same year and assigned the responsibility of printing Indian currency.

Structure

BRBNMPL is governed by a board of directors, headed by a non-executive director appointed by the RBI.

References

  1. ^ "Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited" (PDF).
  2. ^ "History of BRBNMPL". BRBNMPL. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
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