Hi all, Congratulations! We have crossed 2000 signatures through our Accessible Indian Currency petition in less than 100 hours! This level of support definitely has contribution of many of you and much needed from each one of us. It is indeed an important milestone of achieving 10% of our targeted 20,000 signatures. In fact you can track the number of signatures real time by clicking the below link. Worth saving it in your favorites / bookmark to keep following the score! If you haven’t still signed, why not right now by clicking the below link. All you need to do is read the page, enter your name, email id, and submit. You will receive an email from change.org and click on the link provided in the mail. Do remember to make it public while sharing on Facebook (in case you use Facebook). http://tinyurl.com/AccessibleCurrencyPetition
There is a worrying development. A recent Economic Times article says that RBI is going to come up with new 100-rupee notes shortly. If they go as per their original plan, the size difference between 50 and 100 and 200 will be just 2mm each. Factor 0.5mm error margin that they have defined and additional 1mm due to shrinkage of note as people keep folding the notes. Therefore, the size of these notes are going to be so similar that it will be practically impossible for a blind person to identify independently. It becomes more important for us to intensify our campaign now and spend lot more effort. It is time to involve your family members, colleagues, online groups, social work groups, etc. We will be sharing ready-made mails targeting different segments that you can keep forwarding to your network. Just forwarding is not effective. Reach out to your close ones in person and ask them to sign the petition, share on Facebook and further spread the word. In addition, we have just sent a comprehensive representation to RBI and Finance Ministry highlighting all our issues with accessing notes, coins, websites, mobile apps and ATMs. In addition, proposed specific solutions based upon the comprehensive national and international study that was done, including inputs from a few of you. The representation will have lot more value if the same is endorsed by many NGOs working for blind. That is when it will be seen as a problem faced by not just one group, but the whole country. So if you are an NGO and willing to take a lead, please share your email id and name of the organization on this mail or drop a mail to [email protected] We will share the representation with you within 3 days. All you would need to do is sign and send. Of course, feel free to improvise. Also do spread the word among persons with visual impairment connected with your NGO. Remember, it is our campaign and each one of us will have to lead it to hope for a solution. Thanks and regards, Vishal Blind Graduates Forum of India. On 10/2/17, Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > You can use the below message to forward to your contacts, all the > WhatsApp groups and online groups to spread the word on accessible > Indian currency. > > How would you feel if you unknowingly give away a 500-rupee note to > the auto person instead of Rs 20 note and realize after he drives > away? Frightening and disabling. isn’t it? Unfortunately, this > scenario is becoming a day-to-day challenge for over 50 lakh blind > people in India. Please support accessible Indian currency campaign by > signing the below petition and sharing it on Facebook. > > Here are the three simple steps you need to follow: > 1. Click on the below change.org petition and sign the petition by > sharing your email id. Your message will automatically reach the > authorities by an email as soon as you sign the petition. So get as > many people as possible to sign this. Also, share the petition on your > Facebook profile and remember to make it public. > http://tinyurl.com/AccessibleCurrencyPetition > > Click on the below Accessible Indian Currency Facebook page. Like the > page to get future Updates on this. You can share the petition on to > your Facebook account from here as well if required. > http://tinyurl.com/AccessibleCurrencyFacebookPage > > 2. Click on the twitter page and retweet. You may directly tweet to > 3. The authorities by picking the twitter handles on the page if you > Wish. Ignore if you do not have a twitter account. > https://twitter.com/accessibleinr > > Please forward this to your contacts and ask them to share it further. > It will be good if you could get in touch with your close ones in > person to support in making Indian currency accessible for the blind. > > In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “In a gentle way, you can shake the world!” > > > > On 10/2/17, Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Glad to have all of us united on raising our voice for Accessible >> Indian Currency. The current new notes and coins and the probable new >> notes are going to be impractical for persons with impairment to >> identify. Indeed, we have a disaster in the making. It is too serious >> a matter for us not to work on this issue until we have a solution. So >> let us run together the biggest possible social media campaign and >> ensure our voice is heard and acted upon immediately! >> We have created an exclusive Accessible Indian Currency Facebook page, >> petition on change.org and a twitter handle. Let us target obtaining >> at least 20,000 signatures, hundreds of Facebook shares and twitter >> tweets. If each of us contribute with getting just fifteen people to >> join this campaign, we can do it! All you need to do is get at least 5 >> relatives, 5 blind friends and 5 sighted friends to share the below >> Facebook page and sign the petition in the next one week. If each of >> us together do not spend 20 minutes every day for the next few days, >> we may have to live with inaccessible currency for the next ten odd >> years. It is a matter of our independence, livelihood, and dignity. >> Isn’t it? >> >> Here are the three simple steps you need to follow: >> 1. Click on the below change.org petition and sign the petition by >> sharing your email id. Your message will immediately reach the >> authorities by email as soon as you sign the petition. Also post the >> petition on your Facebook profile and remember to make it public. >> http://tinyurl.com/AccessibleCurrencyPetition >> >> 2. Click on the below Accessible Indian Currency Facebook page. Like >> the page to get future updates and coverage on this. If required you >> may share the petition on your Facebook account from here as well. >> http://tinyurl.com/AccessibleCurrencyFacebookPage >> >> 3. Click on the twitter page and retweet. You may directly tweet to >> the authorities by picking the twitter handles on the page if you >> wish. Ignore if you do not have a twitter account. >> https://twitter.com/accessibleinr >> >> A smart approach could be to forward this to people who have different >> set of connections and ask them to share it further. Remember, people >> may not act unless you personally request and follow up with them. >> >> In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “In a gentle way, you can shake the >> world!” >> >> Thanks and regards, >> Team Blind Graduates Forum of India. >> > The list has now migrated to www.accessindia.inclusivehabitat.in You should now post to the id: [email protected] Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
