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The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday clarified banknote designs that have won the recent art competition are not the short-listed designs for the new series.

“The actual designs of the proposed new series are being designed by reputed international firms selected through a competitive process,” the SBP said in a statement.

The central bank informed that the firms will submit their design proposals by December 2024 and the finalized designs duly approved by the SBP Board will be submitted to Federal Government for approval by January 2025.

“The SBP would initiate the printing process for the new banknote series after the approval by the Federal Government,” it maintained.

The remarks come amid misplaced comments that winners of the art competitions will be the new designs of the currency notes.

Earlier in January, SBP initiated the process for designing of the new banknote series year with the announcement of an art competition for thematic design ideas of new banknote series.

The SBP said that the competition was aimed to encourage local artists and engage public in the design process in line with international best practices. Following this, art entries submitted by the local artists were evaluated by a committee of renowned artists and the winning entries of this competition were announced on September 5, 2024.

SBP says no plan to introduce polymer banknote series

The SBP expressed that announcement of the art competition results “has been interpreted by a section of media and public as shortlisting of the designs of new banknote series”.

It said that the aim of announcing the art competition results was only to appreciate the efforts of the artists and encourage them with monetary prizes.

“One of the winning designs projected religious diversity and highlighted different religions being practiced in the country.

“Some segment of the public wrongly interpreted it as an attempt to project a particular religion,” SBP said, adding that they selected the winning design only based on its art quality and the theme of religious diversity and “nothing else”.

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T Sep 12, 2024 04:50pm
the new response from sbp is even more stupid than the previous one.
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R.K Sep 12, 2024 06:14pm
This note design fake looking color is very bad
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Saram Sep 12, 2024 08:08pm
Bad
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Abdullah Sep 12, 2024 08:18pm
Change name from rupees to dollars. Things will improve. Pakistani dollars sounds good.
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Only logical Sep 12, 2024 10:38pm
why not ending bills of 1000 and 5000 and go digital 500 can easily do small transactions
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