Dhaka: Bangladesh Bank has issued cotton-paper new bank notes of Tk 100 and Tk 500 which will be available in the market from June 11.

The new bank notes will be cent percent coated cotton-paper printed instead of existing paper notes, said a BB press release on Tuesday.
 The central bank said Tk 100 note will be 140mm by 62mm in size with 4mm width and Tk 500 will be 152mm by 65mm in size with same the width having Kinetic StarChrome Thread and containing the signature of Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir.

The new bank notes will be issued from Bangladesh Bank's Motijheel office on June 11 and then from its other offices across the country.

The new bank notes, however, will keep unchanged its other security features like colour, design, watermark, writing of 100 Taka and 500 Taka in OVI ink, three and four dots for visually impaired people and also microprint, said the release.