Haryana's Faridabad city has been agog with speculation over the legality and acceptability of the ubiquitous ten rupee coin for the last fortnight and more.......
According to denizens of the city a number of posts on facebook and other social networking sites gave rise to this seemingly endless and utterly fruitless speculation about whether or not the above mentioned ten rupee coin was still being minted by the Reserve Bank of India and it's acceptability as legal tender.......
These unfounded rumours and innuendos have even seen many a concerned Faridabadi making a beeline towards his nearest bank branch to voluntarily surrender or rather exchange all the ten rupee coins in his/her possession with the far more acceptable and seemingly permissible ten rupee notes.......
Alarmed; disturbed and perturbed by this new found public aversion to the age old ten rupee coins in circulation; the assistant manager of the Neelam Chowk Branch of the State Bank Of India (SBI) had to issue a statement to the effect that all the rumours and speculation about the RBI having declared the ten rupee note as persona non grata is nothing but the brain child of a hyper active and seemingly fertile imagination and is as far removed from fact and reality as can be........
Any person or persons who steadfastly or the vehemently refuse to accept ten rupee coins can be punished/booked under the auspices of sections 489 A to E of the Indian Penal Code and punished with a jail sentence ranging between six months to two years; the statement issued by Mr. Ahuja tersely concludes.......
One only hopes and prays that this statement/clarification/rejoinder issued by a renowned authority on all banking/legal tender related issues once and for all puts all idle and wholly irrelevant speculation about the much maligned ten rupee coin to rest and coerces all those shopkeepers and traders who hitherto refused to accept the same to change their strident stand and vehemence in this regard.......
According to denizens of the city a number of posts on facebook and other social networking sites gave rise to this seemingly endless and utterly fruitless speculation about whether or not the above mentioned ten rupee coin was still being minted by the Reserve Bank of India and it's acceptability as legal tender.......
These unfounded rumours and innuendos have even seen many a concerned Faridabadi making a beeline towards his nearest bank branch to voluntarily surrender or rather exchange all the ten rupee coins in his/her possession with the far more acceptable and seemingly permissible ten rupee notes.......
Alarmed; disturbed and perturbed by this new found public aversion to the age old ten rupee coins in circulation; the assistant manager of the Neelam Chowk Branch of the State Bank Of India (SBI) had to issue a statement to the effect that all the rumours and speculation about the RBI having declared the ten rupee note as persona non grata is nothing but the brain child of a hyper active and seemingly fertile imagination and is as far removed from fact and reality as can be........
Any person or persons who steadfastly or the vehemently refuse to accept ten rupee coins can be punished/booked under the auspices of sections 489 A to E of the Indian Penal Code and punished with a jail sentence ranging between six months to two years; the statement issued by Mr. Ahuja tersely concludes.......
One only hopes and prays that this statement/clarification/rejoinder issued by a renowned authority on all banking/legal tender related issues once and for all puts all idle and wholly irrelevant speculation about the much maligned ten rupee coin to rest and coerces all those shopkeepers and traders who hitherto refused to accept the same to change their strident stand and vehemence in this regard.......
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