PIL seeking basic facilities at bank queues filed at MP HC

INDORE: A PIL has been filed at the

Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh high court

seeking basic facilities to people standing in the

long queues at the banks

for

exchanging old currency notes

of Rs. 500 and Rs 1000.

The petition has been filed by a

city based advocate Aakash Sharma

in person, seeking directives regarding increasing number of transactions in separate queues of

cash exchange

,

deposit and withdrawal

.

“Currently most of the banks have a single queue for all the operations, which is causing further delay in transactions. This needs to be altered to make multiple queue system and the number of transactions should be increased,” Aakash Sharma said in the petition.

The petition also seeks arrangement of tents and drinking water facility for people standing in queues outside the banks, and any other facilities that the banks can conveniently provide to the customers standing outside the bank premises.

The petition has also asked for increased number of counters in the banks for all the three the transactions. All this relief have been sought by petitioner from the court on urgent basis.

The petitioner has sought to make the centre, Reserve Bank of India, state government through chief secretary and Indore collector, as respondents.