It surprises me quite a lot to know that despite certain notifications we can actually negate them absolutely. Standing at the grocery shop it was surprising for me to notice that every customer was given a toffee of 50paise. I kept wondering about the grocery shop owner’s generosity. When I had my turn to pay for the grocery I bought, that I realized it was not his generosity but a better way for him to ask us to spend extra. He gave a toffee instead 50paise to me as well instead of refunding me back my 50paise. Since I am not very fond of toffee I offered him a 50paise & wanted to get back my balance. Instead he refused to accept the 50paise. Its not matter of 50paise that did put me off, but what he told me was rather upsetting “Madam where have you been living these days. 50paise is no more in use, in Delhi, as a matter of fact no where in India”. I knew arguing with the person was of no use but I had to tell him that it’s still very much part of Indian currency, as per the notification by the RBI. It was really difficult to make him understand but thanks to my stars I was successful in convincing him.
If for every Rs 50 I am refunded a toffee (of no value to me) or not at all refunded then my budget is surely going to move upside down. If for every Rs100/-, I am not refunded 50paise, in an average I will land up spending Rs 10 extra for every Rs 1000/- & Rs 100/- for every Rs 10,000/-. It means at-least 2 ltrs of petrol to me. More than anything else it’s about my hard earned money & my rights. Reserve bank of India in 2007 has instructed all the banks not to refuse to accept coins of small denominations. If banks are accepting the smaller denomination coins why are we being refused to be refunded those smaller denomination coins in our daily life? The coins as per RBI that are in use are of denominations 50paise, Re 1, Rs 2, & Rs 5.
The question I would like to ask here before I end is: Are they (those who do not accept or return 50paisa) willing to give us a discount of that amount instead of asking us to pay us extra? Will they accept if we barter with them a toffee of value 50paisa instead of paying them extra? Are they ready to suffer that loss instead of consumer suffering that loss?
Weconscious has come up by combining two words “WE” & “CONSCIOUS”. Thereby meaning, we the people who ought to be conscious about our rights & duties. We Conscious is a pious effort to highlight, show, and educate people of the various monsterheads of corruption, moral degradation and gross civic negligence that are rampant in our society. It’s an effort to highlight the illegalities we suffer on day to day basis.
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Normally what i do is i take that choclate and keep it in my pocket and next time when i visit that shop i pay him the choclate in place of 50 ps change
I hope he accepts…..