While it's good to start with, I hope they would also re-design their ATM cabins to be wheel chair friendly.
On 1/11/10, Kotian, H P <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of sandesh > Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 2:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: (VIB) SBI to install 7,000 talking ATMs for visually challenged > > Saturday 09 January, 2010. > > > > SBI to install 7,000 talking ATMs for visually challenged > > > > India's largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI) plans to introduce 7,000 > voice enabled ATMs across the country for visually challenged customers > beginning next month. > > > "Out of our 18,500 ATMs, 7,000 will be made voice enabled for visually > challenged people. We expect to launch these talking ATMs starting next > month," SBI's General Manager (Alternate Channels) Amitabh Kumar said at a > CII seminar in Mumbai on Thursday. > > > > These voice enabled ATMs, customised with headphones and braille key pads, > will offer services like funds transfer and downloading of account > statements, Kumar said. > > > > Presently, SBI is testing voice enabled ATMs with its partners NCR and > Diebold and expects to make these operational in a month's time, he said. > > > > SBI plans to install these ATMs in metro, urban and semi urban towns across > the country. > > > > "The country has 10.6 million visually challenged people and it is the duty > of the banks to help these people to meet their banking needs," ICICI Bank's > CEO and Managing Director, Chanda Kochhar, speaking at the seminar, said. > > > > ICICI Bank has installed its first talking ATM in 2003. Over the years, the > bank has also ensured that the basic banking facilities can be used by > physically handicapped people, Kochhar said. (DD-8.1) > > > > ________________________________ > Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are > addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, > review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in > this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you > have received this email by error, please notify us by return e-mail or > telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any > attachments. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for > the presence of viruses. The Bank accepts no liability for any damage caused > by any virus transmitted by this email. > -- Sent from my mobile device Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Mobile: +91 990 081 0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/sriniworld/ 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
