News: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched a mobile app called MANI’ (Mobile Aided Note Identifier)
Facts:
About MANI’ (Mobile Aided Note Identifier)
- It seeks to aid visually impaired persons in identifying the denomination of currency notes.
- It can scan currency notes using the camera of the mobile phone and gives audio output in Hindi and English. It can work in offline mode too.
- However, the app cannot authenticate a currency note as being genuine or counterfeit.