{"id":42764,"date":"2013-09-12T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T08:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=42764"},"modified":"2013-09-12T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T08:59:09","slug":"indias-central-bank-advises-people-not-to-make-garlands-of-currency-notes-42764","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/indias-central-bank-advises-people-not-to-make-garlands-of-currency-notes-42764\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s central bank advises people not to make garlands of currency notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42765\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42765  \" alt=\"Making garlands of banknotes is common in India. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Garland-Currency-Notes-India-Nationalturk-12-574x360.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Garland-Currency-Notes-India-Nationalturk-12-574x360.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Garland-Currency-Notes-India-Nationalturk-12-280x175.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Garland-Currency-Notes-India-Nationalturk-12.jpg 878w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making garlands of banknotes is common in India.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>India\u2019s central Bank \u2013 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) &#8211; has asked people not to use banknotes for making garlands and decorating pandals.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, Sept 12\/Nationalturk \u2013 In order to increase the life of currency notes, India\u2019s central Bank \u2013 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked public not to use banknotes for making garlands and decorating pandals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Reserve Bank of India appeals public not to use banknotes for making garlands, decorating pandals and places of worship or for showering on personalities in social events,\u201d said Principal Chief General Manager RBI Alpana Killawala.<\/p>\n<p>She said such actions (making garlands and decorating pandals with currency notes) deface the banknotes and shorten their life.<\/p>\n<p>It has become a routine in India to make garlands of bank notes. Besides, on marriages, festivals and other such occasions, people make use of garlands of banknotes.\u00a0 It has also become a norm in most parts of India to shower bank notes on personalities during social events.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Banknotes must be respected\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe banknotes should be respected as they are a symbol of the sovereign and public should not misuse them and help in increasing the life of banknotes,\u201d Alpana said.<\/p>\n<p>She said RBI has been taking all measures to supply clean banknotes across India. \u201cWe urge the members of public to contribute their mite to its efforts in pursuing a \u2018clean note policy\u2019 for the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s central Bank \u2013 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) &#8211; has asked people not to use banknotes for making garlands and decorating pandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,68,63,51,1,118,85,14],"tags":[58456,58450,58457,58449,58452,58451,2546,58112,58455,46844,24300,58453,58454],"class_list":["post-42764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-daily","category-economy","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-world","tag-alpana-killawala","tag-bank-notes","tag-clean-banknotes","tag-currency-notes","tag-decorating-pandals","tag-garlands","tag-india","tag-indias-central-bank","tag-principal-chief-general-manager-rbi","tag-rbi","tag-reserve-bank-of-india","tag-showering-on-personalities","tag-social-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}