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0 Rupees Anti-corruption note
| Issuer | 5th Pillar (NGO, India) |
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| Year | 2007-2021 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Non-legal-tender protest voucher styled after Reserve Bank of India currency notes, with a pink and yellow guilloche underprint. A portrait vignette of Mahatma Gandhi occupies the right field, captioned 'MAHATMA GANDHI'. The centre bears an ornate '0' numeral device above the denomination 'ZERO RUPEES / शून्य रुपया', with anti-bribery legends in Hindi and English and the issuer name '5th PILLAR / पाँचवा स्तंभ' at upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Encourage, Enable and Empower Every Citizen of India to Eliminate Corruption at All Levels of Society हर एक नागरिक को समर्थवान व प्रोत्साहित करे, ताकि भ्रष्टाचार का हर क्षेत्र से उन्मूलन हो सके। DEMOCRACY 5th PILLAR जनतंत्र का पांचवा THIS IS NOT A CURRENCY NOTE यह एक मुद्रा नोट नहीं है Use RTI Act 2005 Right To Information Free training on our website! सूचना का अधिकार अधिनियम 2005 का उपयोग करें Nil - 26 AB, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110017 Phone: +91 44 6527 3056 / +91 94451 64555 Email: [email protected] HQ: 41, Circular Road, United India Colony, Kodambakkam, Chennai - 600 024 |
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Not legal tender and never intended to be. The 5th Pillar NGO began distributing these zero-denomination notes in Tamil Nadu around 2007 as a direct-action tool: citizens were encouraged to hand them to officials demanding bribes, a pointed refusal dressed up as a transaction. The idea spread quickly — millions of copies were eventually distributed across India, making it one of the more unusual mass-print campaigns in the subcontinent's modern history.
The note mimics the visual grammar of Reserve Bank of India currency closely enough to function as a prop, while the zero denomination keeps it unambiguously outside counterfeiting law. Collectors should note that the design was revised multiple times across the 2007–2021 production window, making precise dating of individual examples genuinely difficult without accompanying documentation.