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the size and other features in currency notes and coins.The query was posed by a division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and
Justice N M Jamdar while hearing a petition filed by the National Association of the Blind (NAB).The NAB petition claimed that new currency
notes and coins issued by the RBI posed difficulty for visually impaired persons in terms of identification and distinguishing them."We want
to know from the RBI what is the compulsion to keep changing the features like size and so on in the currency notes," Chief Justice
Nandrajog said.The court added that no other country in the world keeps changing size and features of their currency notes so often.The
court was informed that in March this year the RBI had issued new coins with special features to help visually impaired persons distinguish
them.The court directed the apex bank to file its affidavit within a period of six weeks on the issue.The petition has sought for directions
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