RBI forms panel to insert Meetei Mayek
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, November 26 2021:
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reportedly constituted a design committee to insert Meetei Mayek in the Indian currency notes following instruction from the Government of India.
This was informed by union minister of state for finance Pankaj Choudhary in a letter sent to Rajya Sabha MP and titular king of Manipur Leishemba Sanajaoba.
In the letter dated November 8, the union minister of state informed that a design committee with experts from RBI has been formed to oversee inclusion of Meetei Mayek in the Indian currency notes.
The committee discussed the letters written by the Rajya Sabha MP to different authorities in its meetings.
It will finalise the design and instruct the central bank to insert the indigenous script of Manipuri language in new series of currency notes.
Mention may be made here that Leishemba Sanajaoba brought up the demand in the parliament on February 12 this year.
He stated that the indigenous script of Manipur has not made it in the currency notes even though Manipuri language was granted recognition under the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution on August 20, 1992, and Konkani and Nepali languages and scripts, which got recognised on the same day, have already been featured in the currency notes.