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Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 12
It has long been our cultural practice to garland loved ones on weddings or politicians out of sycophancy with currency notes. The larger the currency laden garland, the bigger the social profile of the one who offers and the one who accepts. This tradition has been deeply entrenched in our cultural system but soon this may be declared as an indecent practice.
The currency notes depict the highest symbol of sovereign the way the national flag does. When there is a disrespect to the national flag, people suddenly spurt in anger but hardly anyone has taken note of the disrespect to the sovereign caused by putting the currency notes on the garlands.
The Reserve Bank of India –the central bank of the country –is now out to launch a public campaign to discourage the practice of garlanding with currency notes. Though garlanding politicians and the loved ones on weddings and other functions with currency notes may be a time-tested method of appeasing them, but the Reserve Bank is not impressed with the practice, which, according to it, mutilates and amounts to disrespect to the "sovereign" that the bank notes depict.
Even the film stars in movies will not be able to shower notes on dancers, and relatives will not be able to gift currency garlands to couples during marriages as the central bank feels such practices only result in defacement of the currency notes.
As part of its efforts to ensure clean bank notes to the public, RBI has asked the public not to use banknotes for making garlands, decorating pandals and places of worship.
"Such actions deface the banknotes and shorten their life. Banknotes should be respected as they are a symbol of the sovereign and not misusing them enhances their life," the central bank said in a statement issued today.
It has favoured marriages and other religious functions without display and decoration by garlands of currency notes. It is an area, where many social reformers may not have succeeded so far, but the central bank has appealed to the public to discontinue practice for the sake of clean bank notes in public life.
The RBI, which discontinued the practice of stapling notes a few years ago, had earlier directed all the banks to stop stapling of banknotes for providing clean and good notes to the public.
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