PM Modi releases Rs 100 commemorative coin in memory of AB Vajpayee - here's what it looks like
Monday, December 24, 2018 IST
The coin is made up of silver, copper, nickel and zinc and weighs 35 grams.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched Rs 100 coin commemorating former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee with his name inscribed in both Devanagari script as well as English on the coin.
PIB India also released a video of the coin launch on Twitter.
The coin has been launched a day before the Bharat Ratna recepient's birth anniversary which will also be celebrated as Good Governance day.
According to reports the salient features of the Rs 100 coin include a portrait of Vajpayee that also carries his birth and death years are inscribed- 1924 and 2018. Along with this, his name in both English and the Devanagari script will also be there on the coin on both sides.
The coin is made up of silver, copper, nickel and zinc and weighs 35 grams.
The coin will also bear the Ashoka Pillar Lion Capital in the centre with ‘Satyameva Jayate’ inscribed below in the Devanagari script on the other side.
With this, the coin will also have ‘Bharat’ inscribed on the left periphery in Devanagari while the right side will have ‘India’ inscribed in English language.
In the memory of Vajpayee, a life-size portrait of the former PM will be installed in the Central Hall of Parliament. This was decided unanimously at a meeting of the parliament’s portrait committee chaired by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.
Vajpayee will be the second Bharatiya Janata Party leader to feature in a portrait in Parliament’s Central Hall after Syama Prasad Mukherjee.
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