History blends with technology at a museum that was once RBI's first office

The RBI had taken the building on lease from the Alliance Bank of Simla. Later, when Alliance Bank went into liquidation, RBI took it over from the liquidators.

Want to get your name printed with the same hand iron press-printing machine that was used in early 1900s to print government bonds? The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gives one a chance to do so at its newly-opened museum in Kolkata. The 112-year old British-made machine was in use till 2016, It is still sturdy and can work for many more years, says the staff in charge of its maintaining. Hence, when computerised printing replaced manual printing of bonds in 2016,  they came up with the idea of showcasing the machine in the museum rather than leaving it to