Dhaka, Feb. 20 -- The currency notes in a new design without Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's image are expected to hit the market by the end of April or early May.

These new notes will bear the signature of the current Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur, according to the bank's spokesperson Arif Hossain Khan.

The new notes will be available before Eid-ul-Adha in June. The government is working to remove potentially all links with the ousted Awami League regime, in a bid to leave behind the autocratic legacy.

Explaining the reason for this, Arif said on Wednesday that a large amount of notes printed in the previous design still remain in the central bank.

"So new design notes are not being printed at the moment to prevent wast...