Why is it so difficult to get change when paying a bill in India? (For those not familiar with this problem, I don't mean to say that businesses are unwilling to give change -- rather that they simply don't have the cash on hand to provide change.)
In many situations, such as in paying for rickshaw rides, the cultural norm seems to be that it is the payee's responsibility for having exact change and since the seller knows that many customers will simply round up if not provided change there is a definite incentive for them not to carry around any extra cash. This seems to be only part of the explanation though. People really do seem genuinely upset if I hand over a 100 rs to pay for a 30 rs item. The problem appears to be more acute in Mumbai, where some businesses horde 10 rs notes.
Is the RBI not printing enough 10 rs notes?
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Not having change is a typically French phenomenon. I am not sure why this is, but every Francophone country I have ever lived in or visited have been as bad or worse than my experience in India. I can't explain it to you, but my thoughts are that it isn't a lack of money being printed but in circulation. India has a large number of people living on very little...I would say almost all of which have little or no access to bank accounts, so they save in cash. They save this cash in small denominations—coins, 10s, 20s, 50s. If 300 million individuals have 10 small notes saved in their houses that would put a serious strain on the amount of money being circulated. Just a crazy late night revelation I had in the middle of the Sahara Desert where surprisingly a man at the store pulled out a large can of small bills...He was the town's banker.
Change is always happening we just need to wake up and recognise. The whole blood changes, the skin changes, everything in our bodies is dynamic.
Gurudev's (Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji) vision is one world family... but what to do when in your own family, there is a lot of strife, tension, jealousy, etc, and it seems as if things will never be alright... How do i handle this?
All families/nations have some problem or the other, and typically while you
are in the problem, its going to feel as if its been there forever... and will go on forever... but remember circumstances and people do
change over time, and something that you thought was a big problem may be trivial over time... and may even teach you new skills, and bring out new talents in you...
Practicing Art of Living techniques and Knowledge doesnt eliminate problems from our lives, it simply gives us efficient ways to cope with them... We, through our actions (which are now much more dynamic and effective) manage to handle the problems in our lives... of course Guruji's Grace does bring us that unseen, unfelt good luck and great timing... but thats another story :)
So Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam or a One World Family is possible, and we can all make it happen, even if there are problems in our own family... we just need to expand the definition of family/nation/nationality :)... and in my personal experience i have seen, when i take on bigger challenges, bigger problems, then the ones i have pale into insignificance and almost
manage to solve themselves :)
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