A meeting between officials of the finance ministry and the Bangladesh Bank on Thursday finalised newly designed currency notes highlighting the mass uprising that ousted the authoritarian Awami League regime on August 5, 2024.
Officials attending the meeting at the Finance Division said that BB governor Ahsan H Mansur and other officials, including the designer, apprised the finance adviser about the new notes.
The new currency notes will feature mass uprising graffiti prominently along with national emblems and relics, they added.
The new currency notes will replace the existing currency notes containing an image of the country鈥檚 founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
BB spokesperson Arief Hossain Khan said that the central bank would no more print the currency notes containing the image of the former president.
The decision was made at a meeting of the Bangladesh Bank board in December past year.
Arief, however, could not say how many days it would take to replace the notes contaminating the image of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The Bangladesh Bank had printed a huge amount of money during the ousted AL regime especially in its last two years with Abdur Rauf Talukder at the helm.
The BB spokesperson said that the current BB governor would not put his signature on notes containing the image of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
In 2009, the BB under the governorship of Salehuddin Ahmed, now the finance adviser, released notes without image of the county鈥檚 founding president.
BB officials said that the new notes were expected to hit the market in May.
The outcome of Thursday鈥檚 meeting will help the BB call international tenders for purchasing necessary materials for preparing the notes, they said.
