Letter 1 of 3 – for Prime Minister’s Office. Just print the letter below, put your signature and other credentials at the end and send it to the below postal address: Honorable Prime Minister of India 7 Race Course Road New Delhi-110011.
Also copy the body of the letter into an email and send it to: conn...@mygov.nic.in CC the mail to BGFI on contact.b...@gmail.com The letter content starts below: To Honorable Prime Minister of India PMO New Delhi. Subject: An Appeal to make Indian Currency notes easily identifiable for the blind citizens Respected sir, I am a proud Indian who happens to be blind. I am grateful to your government administration under your leadership and guidance for undertaking many initiatives such as Accessible India campaign and other measures which would result in making a positive difference in the lives of persons with disabilities. It pains me immensely to bring to your kind notice the issue of difficult-to-use Indian currency notes. We, the blind face some genuine inconveniences in identifying various currency notes in circulation including the newly introduced ones. Particularly: • The blind people feel the size, both length and width to identify and count the notes. Length of all the new notes is the same (66 MM) which compels us to identify the notes only based upon width. • The width of the notes has been reduced drastically making it extremely difficult for us to perceive. Variation of minimum 10 MM in width and in length between each of the notes is essential for the blind to be able to differentiate and identify. 1. The variation in width between the Rs. 200 note and the new Rs. 500 note is just 4 MM. 2. The variation in width and length between the new Rs. 500 note and the Rs. 20 note is 3 MM. 3. the variation in length between the Rs. 200 note and the Rs. 20 note is just 1 MM and width just 3 MM. 4. The variation in width between the new Rs. 50 note and Rs. 10 note is just 2 MM. • The bleed lines on all the relevant notes including the new Rs. 50, Rs. 200, Rs. 500 and Rs. 2000 are too light to feel and are of no help in identifying the notes. An average blind person cannot feel the bleed lines readily and they get blurred with repeated use. Relying on only bleed lines is also not a practical solution to count bundles of notes as the blind person has to feel every note in the bundle. • Coexistence of old and new currencies makes it very confusing and complex to count. Sir, in earlier times, size of all the notes was sufficiently different so that we the blind and other people did not face significant challenge in identifying various notes and we could conduct transactions with ease and independently. I strongly feel that the bleed lines or any marking on the notes is not sufficient to differentiate them, as it would get tactually imperceptible with the passage of time. So, sufficient variation in size is the only pragmatic and viable solution to the problem. This will not only help the blind, but also will make it convenient for all other citizens. Sir, India has recently passed Rights of Persons with Disabilities, RPD Act, 2016 which mandates that all the services have to be provided in an accessible manner to the persons with disabilities. Issuing currency being the sovereign function of the government, may we earnestly appeal you to make it accessible for the blind and all other disabled citizens by introducing sufficient variations in their dimensions for new notes to be printed at least. This will make our life easier, safer and independent. May we also request you to kindly issue a directive to concerned committee within Ministry of Finance and Reserve Bank of India for considering requirements of blind citizens while they design new currency and consult various blind citizens groups for arriving at pragmatic solutions which would be useful to all. Sadly committee comprising of blind citizens with respect to designing new currency notes and coins were formulated but their pragmatic suggestions have been conveniently ignored. Having firm faith in your benevolence. Yours sincerely Signature: Date: 31st August, 2017 Phone: Address: On 9/3/17, Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI) <contact.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > A few of you are facing difficulty in downloading the letter. So we > will be pasting the content of the 3 letters in 3 separate emails > shortly. You may just pick directly from there. > > Thank you Raju Waghmare for coming forward to contribute on the legal > front. Could you please share your contact number so that we can > discuss on the specifics. You may send your number on > contact.b...@gmail.com please. > > You are right Siddalingeshwar. Change.org is quite convenient. However > it is not effective unless thousands of us contribute. Many such > petitions including on disability matters have failed in the past due > to low response. Unfortunately we are not united enough. many of us > talk of the issues, but are unable to write and talk to relevant > authorities. That’s the reason we have drafted the letters for > everybody’s benefit and all we have to do is sign and send. 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