https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-note-sizes-changed-to-make-them-wallet-friendly-rbi-to-bombay-high-court-2787771 Regarding a mobile app that the RBI had proposed for helping the visually-challenged identify currency notes, the Chief Justice said, "There is nothing more helpful for the visually-challenged than the feel of the hand. No technology will be able to supplement that… nature has its own compensatory ways, the visually-challenged can feel lines which are embossed… you (RBI) must realise that."
Counsel Dhond informed the court that the new series of notes have tactile identification marks on their sides and that each note has a particular type of pattern called 'bleed lines', but also clarified that these are available only for notes of higher denomination such as those above Rs 100. Advocate Uday Warunjikar appearing for the petitioner - National Association for the Blind told the court that these 'bleed lines' fade within a few days. The RBI counsel responded that they would not fade, as higher denomination currency change hands less often. The Chief Justice asked RBI, what about the lower denomination notes that would not have bleed lines and said that differently-abled are moving mainstream and we owe to make things simpler for them and not complicated. When the RBI counsel suggested the help of the app for the blind to identify lower denomination currency, Chief Justice asked referring to Kashmir, "There is a state where the network is not available and there are communication shutdowns on perceived threats of law and order. What about visually-challenged living there?" To this, counsel Dhond said that the mobile app once downloaded would not need an internet connection, but that he would need to confirm that. The Chief Justice remarked that technology solves problems, but also makes it a handicap. -- Avinash Shahi (Assistant) – Human Resource Management Department Reserve Bank of India Lucknow 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..
