Currency for visually-impaired

President Maithripala Sirisena has instructed the Central Bank's Deputy Director General to print currency notes with special marks easily identifiable to the visually-impaired, following representations by the Visually-Impaired Graduates' Association.

There are nearly 300,000 fully visually-impaired persons in Sri Lanka and the government has decided that this would be one way to cater to their special needs.

Provision of employment for the visually-impaired graduates, giving effect to international conventions on the visually- impaired and educational assistance to their children are some of the progressive measures in the pipeline.