The RBI has been trying for a while to inculcate 'good habits' among the people - so as to encourage good quality notes.

'Whatever we do, we do through the banks. One of the challenges that we had was to do away with stapled notes, a habit that often results in the note getting torn. After issuing a directive to banks, they have done away with the stapling of bundles of currency notes,' said Killawala.

'We have also asked them to tell people not to give stapled notes when they deposit such notes to the bank. Further, we made a movie in 2006 on the same subject which was telecast on Doordarshan.'

The RBI has also organised camps to educate people on how to handle currency notes.

'Our latest initiative is making a short film on the dos and don'ts of handling bank notes. People have to be discouraged from scribbling on notes and folding them. The movie will be ready for telecasting in another couple of months,' she said.

'The trend of note garlands is mainly north India centric. Therefore, we will have to devise a programme specifically for that area,' she added.