Dear all, Trust all is well at your end.
It was my good fortune to interact with RBI governor, Sri D Subbarao last Friday at leadership summit. I did ask him a question "why are coins which are so difficult to identify by visually impaired or blind citizens of this country as they are all same size? Why does system discriminate against us? Why are we not consulted on design of the same prior to launching it in the economy?" His reply was that this question was raised to him earlier and they will certainly do something about it. I later on had an opportunity to spend 30 minutes with him over cup of tea and actually demonstrated how difficult it was to identify Rs. 1 coin, Rs. 2 coin and I actually have to take sighted help to identify them. I leverage on my US experience where coins such as penny, dime and quarter can easily be identified based on their size variance. I did inform him about our two beloved friends harish and Rajesh and he was not aware that visually impaired folks even work for him. He did take two visiting cards from me and I was under the impression that nothing is going to happen this time. Same principal would apply "out of sight is out of mind". Today I got a call from General manager RBI Calcutta inviting me for a meeting next week to discuss this in details. Let's keep our finger across and hope something arise out of this. Thanks and will keep you posted. Asif 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
