It operates in Indian and global markets, catering to security document needs of Central banks and monetary authorities of the world by designing, printing and supplying banknotes.
BRBNM supplies a major portion of bank note requirement in the country with the remaining requirements met through Security Printing & Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL), a statutory body wholly owned by Government of India.
[2][3] The present capacity for both the presses is 16 billion note pieces per year on a two-shift basis.
It made a world record by printing more than 20,000 million pieces of bank notes in financial year 2016–17, It has its own design cell.
Until 1928, Indian currency was printed by De La Rue, a British banknote manufacturing company.