CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently updated its Mobile Aided Note Identifier (MANI) app that helps the visually impaired people to identify banknotes to include 11 more Indian languages.

Detailed explanation-2: -The MANI App was launched on January 01, 2020 for aiding visually impaired persons to identify the denomination of Indian Banknotes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Users can download the app, called ‘MANI’, which is an acronym for Mobile Aided Note Identifier, and will have to scan the notes using the camera. With an eye to aid the differently-abled, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday launched a mobile app to identify currency notes.

Detailed explanation-4: -(b) The MANI app can also identify the denomination of currency notes through an audio notification in Hindi/English. (c) For accessing the application features, one can easily navigate the ‘MANI’ app via voice controls.

Detailed explanation-5: -Which IIT has launched an app ‘Roshni’ to help blind identify notes? Notes: IIT Ropar has launched an android app ‘Roshni’ to help the blind in recognizing the denomination of the currency notes, using image processing and analytics.