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Government's fact checking agency PIB Fact Check has said that there are no plans to withdraw paper currency notes or replace them with plastic currency notes by June 30, 2026.

The unit further appealed to users to report suspicious content related to the Government of India to @PIBFactCheck.

The claim, which has been widely shared across social media platforms and messaging apps, prompted a clarification from the government's fact-checking arm ...

The move comes almost a decade after the central bank first floated the proposal to print plastic currency notes, as paper currency experiences a surge. The higher cost of printing paper currency and ...

India May Soon Get Plastic Currency Notes: In view of the surging demand for currency notes in recent years, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revived its decade-old plan of printing polymer ...

Detection of counterfeit currency notes in the banking system increased by 5.7 per cent during 2025-26, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s latest annual report. The total number of fake currency ...