RUPEES NINE

THE DIFFERENCE WAS JUST RS. 9 ONLY BUT IT WAS A MATTER OF BREAD AND BUTTER ONLY FOR ME.

To day I am going to share one of my extremely unique experience of my life as a bank officer while I was posted as centre in charge of a particular training centre.
It was an induction programme for  newly recruited(direct) specialist batch of officers.Twenty five number of officers were nominated and all without a single drop out came to attend the programme.
As usual the introductory speech was given by me as centre in charge detailing the rules ,dos  and don't etc etc with lot of punch of motivation.I was introduced to all the trainees and found all of them were highly qualified extremely intelligent ,hard working ,eager to learn, serious and no nonsense in their attitude.It was an admixture of 25 young boys and girls coming from all over the country including south.
After the preliminaries were over,the course Co ordinators came to my chamber and requested me to take one more additional class on cash management which I readily agreed. The cash management class basically contains cash management with particular reference to difference of government note and bank noteS and it's vsruous features so that fake notes are easily identified as also to maintain minimum cash balance to increase the profitability. In fact the class on this subject is a drab one but considering the impressive composition of the group as also my wide experience in the field,I ventured to take the class willingly.
On the appointed date I started taking the class in my husky loud voice(they say and not me) in the normal course before an audience of 25 trainees eager enough to listen to each and every word with beaming eyes and shinning faces portraying intelligence and willingness to learn.I talked about various feature of notes like security threads ,water mark, distinctive invisible marks and printed numbers on either side in respect of some notes etc and concluded by saying that one rupee note was issued by government of India which contains the signature of secretary of ministry of finance and all other motes from two rupee note and above are issued by Reserve bank of India and bears the signature of governor of RBI.Further I added that one rupee note is called government note as it is issued by government without any corresponding gold or gold's worth deposit due to low velocity of circulation while all other notes from rupee 2 and upwards are called bank notes as they are issued by RBI with corresponding deposit of gold or gold's worth  as their velocity of circulation impacts the economy fully.
I was very satisfied with my deliberations  and taking a sip of water from the glass,I asked "have you now understood the difference between bank and government note?"Pat came the reply in chorus 'yes siiiir.I felt extremely delighted and my chest was further inflated.Again in order to re assure myself, I asked them "Please tell me the difference between a ten rupee note and one rupee note?"And again pat came the reply it is 9 rupees siiiir. I could not believe  as to what I heard. I asked what?By that time my husky and loud voice became as thin and low as possible but the answer was thunderous NINE RUPEES SIIIIR.
The entire sky seemed to have fallen on my head. I wast crestfallen with the grinning and grim face of the ever criticising face of our principal being flashed with some  yellow stars dancing erratically before my eyes.I had to leave the class as a defeated soldier  leaving behind my junior friends  who pinned me down to the ground literally