INDORE: Indore bench of
Madhya Pradesh high court
on Friday issued notices to the Reserve Bank of India, the Centre and the state government on a PIL 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 division bench, comprising Justice PK Jaiswal and Justice Virendra Singh, asked the respondents to reply to the notice within three days.
The petition was 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. The petitioner had sought the relief from the court on urgent basis.
The petitioner had sought to make the centre, Reserve Bank of India, state government through chief secretary and Indore collector, as respondents.