Tactile features included in currency notes for visually impaired, RBI tells court
India Today
The Reserve Bank of India informed the Bombay High Court that tactile features have been included in the currency notes for the visually impaired.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday told the Bombay High Court that it has included several tactile features in currency notes so that visually impaired persons can easily identify the same.
Senior advocate Venkatesh Dhond, appearing for the RBI, informed the court that apart from developing the application, the RBI had also consulted with several associations working for visually impaired people before the new currency was issued.
“The RBI has developed several tactile features in the currency notes including identification marks and raised lines," advocate Dhond said.
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A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice MS Karnik were informed that after filing of the Public Interest Litigation by the National Association of the Blind (NAB), RBI had developed a mobile application which could be used by visually impaired people.
According to advocate Dhondh, the Rs 100 note has a triangle and four raised lines, Rs 500 note has a circle and five lines and the Rs 2000 note has a rectangle and seven lines for people with special needs to identify them.
The NAB had filed a petition in 2019 claiming that the new currency notes and coins posed difficulty for visually impaired people in identifying and distinguishing them. The petitioner's advocate Uday Warunjikar reiterated before the court that, earlier, the notes and coins were of different sizes and hence were easily identifiable.
