Rs. 2000 banknote of Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series has ______ motif on its back.

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Answer 1

The correct answer is Mangalyaan.

Key Points

The Reserve Bank of India is introducing new design banknotes in the denomination of ₹2000 as part of Mahatma Gandhi(New) Series. The new denomination has motif of the Mangalyaan on the reverse, depicting the country's first venture in interplanetary space.
The base colour of the note is magenta. The note has other designs, geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both on the obverse and the reverse.
The size of the new note is 66mm x 166mm.

Additional Information

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan, is a space probe launched by the Indian Space Research Organization on November 5, 2013.
Mangalyaan was India's first interplanetary mission.
The indigenously-built space probe has reached the Martian orbit on 24 September 2014.
The mission made India the first Asian country, and the fourth in the world after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency, to get to the planet.
ISRO spent $75 million to launch the mission, making it the least-expensive Mars mission to date.