10 features of Rs 2,000 note that India must thank Modi for
Modi’s surgical strike on black money has caused a lot of things: overwhelming Modi-love on the social media, criticism about intersectional oppression and of course a series of inane and, honestly, ridiculous set of rumours. The best one among those superlative gossips are about a “microchip” in the new currency that "detects black money".
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| The only thing the new currency is good at is looking like cheap knock-off Monopoly money. [Photo: Twitter] |
A viral hoax, spread through toxic "family WhatsApp groups by weird sanghi uncles", claims that these new Rs 2,000 notes are embedded with “Nano-GPS Chips” (NGC) which provide the precise location of the currency in order to allow every note to be tracked. These super awesome chips are, in fact, so powerful, they can send a signal even if they are kept buried 120 meters below the ground. These revolutionary chips will help identify if too many of these notes are kept in one place and alert the relevant authorities.
And, that kids, is why you should put the “family WhatsApp group” on a lifetime mute. Despite zero claims of anything of likes of this breakthrough technology, people are still falling for this hoax and believing it to be true.
This Bollywood actress and former Miss India, for example, believes in two-bit hoaxes like this.
#BlackMoney 2000 rs note will have NGC chip which can be tracked from satellite now mass storage of black money can be detected
— Urvashi Rautela ???????? (@URautelaForever) November 8, 2016
So, for the gullible and the extremely naive, let us illustrate a few more of these amazing features present in the new Rs 2000 currency note. Of course, none of them are true. But one can always dream, right? If we believe in these hoaxes hard enough, maybe someday, like the Achche Din promises, these too will come true.
1) The new notes, if stuck to the back of your VoLTE phone, will enhance your Reliance Jio 4G speeds. Try it, friends. It really works.
2) If you tear the new Rs 2,000 note into 4 equal pieces, they will change into 4 of the new Rs 500 notes.
3) Apart from detecting large amounts of currency, the new note can not only detect if there is beef within a 200 metre radius, but also sends a quick notification of its presence to the nearest RSS shakha.
4) If everyone in the country burns one Rs 2,000 note at the same time, the resultant light energy can be seen from space.
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| Proof of what it will look like taken by NASA satellite. [Photo: Twitter] |
5) The new currency notes can detect if it is Arvind Kejriwal at the ATM and will immediately make the machine stop functioning.
6) If you put some lime juice over the new currency notes and hold it lightly over a burning candle, the face of Mahatma Gandhi will be immediately replaced by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
7) Every time you make a transaction with the new note, 35 paise will be sent to the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan.
8) The new notes are both water and dust resistant and can easily survive a 50 minute spin in a washing-machine. Just try it.
9) If you don’t take a selfie with the new Rs 2,000 note, or take a photo of bhel wrapped in an old Rs 1000 note, you will be visited by the Income Tax department in the next 48 hours.
10) The new Chinese Product Recognizer (CPR) technology in the Rs 2,000 note will not allow you to buy any China manufactured product. It will only let you buy Patanjali or Make In India products.
Before anyone actually believes all of this, and mass-forwards this on WhatsApp, we’d humbly like to remind you, yet again, that none of these things are true. Seriously, the only thing the new currency is good at is looking like cheap knock-off Monopoly money.