Explanation:

Bank Note Press, Dewas is an industrial unit of Security Printing & Minting Corporation of India limited, Wholly owned by the government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs, BNP was established in 1974 to print world class high quality bank notes of different denominations. Bank Note Press, Dewas is headed by the General Manager, who directly reports to the Chairman & Managing Director of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited.

The Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited was formed after corporatization of all nine Security units of presses / mints which were earlier working under Ministry of Finance. SPMCIL was registered on 13-1-2006 with its headquarters at Jawahar Vyapar Bhawan, New Delhi.

It is situated on the Agra-Bombay National Highway near the famous Chamundeshwari Hillock in the town of Dewas. It is 1.5 Kms from Dewas Railway station, 35 Kms from Indore, and 35 Kms from Ujjain located in Malwa Region of Madhya Pradesh.

This unit is engaged in printing of bank notes incorporating higher security features like Intaglio/ Orlof printing, micro tints, inter-lock designs, see through designs, latent image, use of fluorescent & optically variable inks etc., to impede forgery and meet the increasing demands of Reserve bank of India.

While successfully discharging the sovereign function assigned by the SPMCIL, Presently this unit is printing bank notes of Rs.20/-, Rs.100/- and Rs.500/- denominations and is capable to print bank notes of any denomination. The plant and machinery for such sophisticated security printing and processing were supplied by the World leaders M/s De La Rue Giori, including auxiliary supporting facilities like design, studio, plate making, Effluent Treatment Plant etc.

Bank Note Press, Dewas has its own security printing ink manufacturing unit to meets the requirement of various type of printing inks of Bank Note Press, Dewas and also of the sister units like Currency Note Press, India Security Press, Nashik Road; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad and many others.