The bank's vice governor Daw Khin Saw Oo made the disclosure in parliament in reply to a proposal urging the government to circulate bank notes bearing General Aung San's image.
"The central bank will issue bank notes bearing the images of the country's prominent leaders, buildings, landscapes and emblems with the permission of the union government," she said.
During the tenure of the previous military government, General Aung San's image had been absent from bank notes.
General Aung San was responsible for winning Myanmar's independence from British colonial rule but was assassinated six months before independence.
The general along with his bodyguard and seven councilor members were killed at Yangon's Prime Minister's Office on July 19, 1947.
Following the country's independence on Jan 4, 1948, bank notes carried Aung San's image until the military take-over.
General Aung San is father of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
source: Bernama
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