The issue of accessible currency has been a sticking point with people from the visually impaired community in India for over a year now. Now, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released a series of coins that are accessible for people with vision impairments. The new coins come in different values - ₹1, ₹2, ₹5, ₹10, and ₹20. They come with features that will enable people who are blind or with low vision to identify them. The coins were launched by the Prime Minister and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the presence of children with visual impairments.
The PM later tweeted to say, "In the presence of young Divyang friends, a new series of visually impaired friendly coins were launched. These coins will help the visually impaired greatly". As per reports, the first ever ₹20 coin will be shaped like a 12-edged polygon and will have the design of grains representing agriculture. The other coins will be circular with denominations printed in Hindi script. Read in detail: https://newzhook.com/story/21615 Regards Ramya Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
