Madras HC Questions Legality of Devanagari Script on Rs 2,000 Notes

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The central government is facing a new critique of its demonetisation drive with the Madras high court questioning the finance ministry’s decision to use Devanagari numerals on the new Rs 2,000 notes. On Monday, November 21, the Madurai bench of the court questioned the finance minstry’s authority to use Devanagari script while responding to a PIL filed by K. P. T, Ganesan, a Madurai resident, who has argued that the new notes should be declared “invalid” since the Indian constitution does not permit the use of Devanagari numerals on currency notes.

As Aadithiyan and Mathur explained, the issue of using Devanagari numerals goes back decades to the language debate that absorbed the nation when the Indian constitution first started to take shape. In addition to Article 343, the issue was explored further through the Official Languages Commission and then the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language, whose findings eventually resulted in the Presidential Order of 1960.

The order decisively reads, “For scientific, technical and statistical publications… the international numerals should be adopted uniformly in all publications’.”

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center should grab this opportunity to scrap the idea of 2000 note....as they already said that there will not be any 1000 mote either...
timebound manner we have to adopt plastic money transactions.....after 2-3 year scrap the 500 note too....

 

[oFFbEAT]

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I kind of agree with you, poor people don't do purchases worth thousands at a time so large denominations are not needed by them, rich people have access to plastic money, for middleclass people like us, it becomes a headache getting change for 500/1000 rupee notes let alone 2000....in short, large denominations don't help anyone except the corrupt so, IMHO 100 rupee notes should be the largest denomination, it will help everyone and also curb black money.

 

[Hindustani78]

Ministry of Finance
25-November, 2016 17:19 IST
Value of Currency Notes in Indian Languages

The Indian banknotes are printed in two languages, English and Hindi. In addition, the other languages printed on the language panel of the Indian notes are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Inclusion of languages on Banknotes is more a part of design and a matter of convention and in terms of Section 25 of RBI Act 1934, “The design, form and material of banknotes shall be such as may be approved by the Central Government after consideration of the recommendations made by the Central Board”.

This was stated by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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