Writing on a note

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I used to write my name and address in notes (paper money) I get in my childhood. Needless to say, I had learned the habit by seeing others doing this. My friends and classmates also did the same. There was a popular notion among us that writing your name in a paper note will cause that note to return to you ultimately. You expend the note and that note goes to other’s pocket, but one day you will get the note again. That’s what we used to think when writing our names in notes. I remember hand writing would be more beautiful when writing on a note than our usual hand writing.

 

Novelist Buddhisagar also mentioned about this childhood reminiscence in his recently published ultra-thick novel ‘Firfire’. The two main characters Pawan and Basanta write their names in paper note in an attractive hand writing.

Yesterday, Supreme Court (SC) of Nepal has given an interim order in the name of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the authority to print and distribute notes, to implement Clean Note Campaign. Some good minded lawyers of Kathmandu had registered the lawsuit against the damage and deterioration of notes and unnecessary annual costs to print new notes against the NRB. Justice Cholendra Samsher Rana has issued the interim order.

This order should be highly appreciated by NRB, other private banks and all other concerned people. Now, we see our paper notes in a torn state which makes uncomfortable having that note. Many foreign countries including America, France, and Britain have already implemented the Clean Note Campaign successfully. Even our South Asian neighbors India and Bangladesh also followed the same path. It is very hard to find old and deserted notes even in remote places of India. Then why we lag behind in this good cause?

Until now, banks use stapler to bind notes in bulk. One hundred notes of the same rate are stitched together with several staple pins. This makes the notes look unhealthy and pathetic in the long run. NRB previously instructed all the banks over the country to stich only once. But like many other rules and laws, this also went unnoticed and unimplemented.

If this order gets implemented, banks shall wrap notes with a paper and bind with a rubber. Use of any staples will be avoided resulting in clean and healthy notes even after some period of time. We, general public, should also laud this very noteworthy decision of SC. Let’s minimize the use of staple and stop writing on notes, and at the end make notes clean and beautiful as in new condition.