How to identify pre-2005 currency notes?
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced its plans to withdraw all
currency noted issued before 2005. Financial experts believe that the
move is largely aimed at removing fake or counterfeit currency embedded
into the financial system as well help uncover the big black market
currency in the country. While the motives of RBI are unquestionably
good, there has been some quantum of confusion amongst the general
public as to whether the notes they have would need replacement or not.
Read on to find out if the currency notes in your pocket or ones stashed
in your locker needs to be changed.
Identifying Pre 2005 Currency Notes: Currently
the Reserve Bank of India prints currency notes in the denomination of
Rs. 5, Rs. 10, Rs. 20, Rs. 50, Rs. 100, Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000. All the
notes printed before the year 2005 do not have the year of printing
marked on it. All currency notes printed post 2005 have is year of
printing clearly printed in the middle of the bottom row on the backside
of the note. If your bank note has no year of printing on the back, it
means the note is printed before 2005 and needs to be exchanged with the
bank as per the RBI deadline. All notes with the year of printing
indicated on the currency note would stay in operation as all of them
are posted after 2005.
How to Exchange Old Currency Notes: So
now that you have identified your currency notes and shortlisted the
ones that need to be changed, a simple exchange procedure is revealed by
the press release of the Reserve Bank of India. First things first,
there should be no reason to panic whatsoever as the RBI has clearly
stated that all old notes would continue to be completely legal and can
be exchanged at any bank after April 1, 2014. 
All public sector as well as private banks have been asked to create a
dedicated exchange counter where both account owners as well as non
account owners of that bank or branch can exchange their old currency
notes for new ones. These exchange counters will become operation from
1st April 2014.If you have a large amount of old currency notes with
you, you may want to exchange them, before 30th June 2014. So why is
this date important? All exchanges done before 30th June would be
unconditional. For any exchange of more than ten pieces of old Rs 500 or
Rs 1000 notes after that date would require identity proof and address
to be shared with the bank if you are a non customer of that bank.
In Indian so far there has been no official declaration regarding the lifespan of a currency note.
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