Very good initiative.
Paul
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Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2018 10:17 AM
To: accessindia; J L Kaul
Subject: [AI] Delhi High Court: Will ask visually challenged to examine new
notes
Delhi HC is taking the issue of inaccessible currency seriously. Read the
PTI Feed today. AICB has once again stood strong while fighting it out in
the Court.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/will-ask-visuall
y-challenged-to-examine-new-notes-hc/articleshow/62948864.cms
New Delhi, Feb 16 () The Delhi High Court today said it would consider
asking some visually impaired persons to examine the new currency notes and
coins recently issued by the government to see if they faced problems
differentiating between the various denominations.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar made
the observation after the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) told the
court the new currency has been introduced after consulting and taking into
account the suggestions made by various associations for the visually
impaired.
The central government, represented by Additional Standing Counsel Sanjay
Jain, told the court that Rs 10 note would be soon done away with and
replaced by coins. The sizes of the Rs 20 and Rs 50 denomination notes could
be easily differentiated by blind persons, it claimed.
The government and the RBI told the court that intaglio markings, a printing
technique where image is incised into a surface, are not being made in the
Rs 20 and Rs 50 notes as these denominations are widely used, as these
markings, which are expensive, would get smudged with time.
However, the notes of denominations of Rs 100 and above have the intaglio
markings, they told the bench.
The ASG also said that the new coins of Re 1, Rs 2, Rs 5 and Rs 10 would be
having striations of various lengths at the edges to make them discernible
from each other.
The court asked the Centre to file an affidavit on the steps it was taking
to make the coins discernible from each other and listed the matter for next
hearing on March 7.
The bench was hearing PILs filed by three advocates, a company secretary and
NGO All India Confederation of Blind, who had sought a change in the new
currency notes to make them easily identifiable and differentiable for the
visually impaired.
The PIL by advocate Rohit Dandriyal sought directions to the authorities to
withdraw the Rs 50 notes which do not have any identification marks and stop
printing them.
He said that, according to the RBI, a special feature has been introduced on
the left of the watermark window on all notes, except the Rs 10 denomination
ones.
"This feature is in different shapes for various denominations. For example,
a vertical rectangle denotes a Rs 20 note, a square means Rs
50 (in older
notes), triangle and circle for Rs 100, a diamond denoted the Rs 1,000
currency which is not a legal tender now," the advocate's PIL said.
The petition by the NGO said the visually impaired people were facing
hardship in identification, usage and transaction of the new currency notes
of Rs 2000, Rs 500, Rs 200 and Rs 50 denominations.
Maintaining that the size of old and new notes were different, the NGO also
sought replacement of coins of Rs 10, Rs 5, Rs 2 and Re 1 saying these were
of a similar structure. HMP PPS ARC
--
Avinash Shahi
Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU
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