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10 Rupees Twelve Year National Plan Savings Certificate
| Issuer | Government of India |
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| Year | 1957 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted certificate with teal guilloche border and corner vignettes of the Ashoka Pillar emblem. Denomination '10 TEN RUPEES' appears at left and right in bold letterpress, with serial number and series prefix at centre. Printed text body certifies holder registration at a named Post Office, with Post Office date-stamp and Postmaster signature line at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Pink-tinted reverse with matching teal guilloche frame and Ashoka Pillar corner vignettes. Left panel presents a tiered schedule of redemption amounts for each year from issue up to twelve years in letterpress tabular format. Right panel carries the Receipt on Discharge section with spaces for payment amount, holder signature, and date, below which appears the authorising Ministry of Finance notification reference. |
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These certificates were instruments of the Second Five-Year Plan, launched in 1956 under Nehru's push for rapid industrialization. The twelve-year lock-in was exceptionally long by the standards of government savings instruments anywhere in the world at the time — long enough that many original holders never redeemed them personally.
Printed domestically at the India Security Press, Nashik, which had only recently taken over full production of Indian security documents from the earlier British-era arrangements. The shift to indigenous printing was deliberate policy, not just logistics.