oneANDone Posted May 15, 2014 Posted May 15, 2014 The 10-year-old who offered money to India's central bank By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi When a 10-year-old resident of Gurgaon read about the RBI's efforts to prevent the rupee from sliding further against the dollar, she decided she needed to do something about it. And Laila Indira Alva did just that -- she sent the RBI governor Raghuram Rajan $20 that she had saved as a contribution to the bank's foreign exchange reserves. The BBC reported that she enclosed the money in a letter to Rajan in which she wrote: "Dr Raghuram Rajan, please bring in some new ideas that will improve our economy. I want people to come to India and not to think it's corrupt and a dump!" But Alva was in for a surprise of her own. A few days after she sent the letter to Rajan, the RBI governor sent her a reply with her $20 bill enclosed inside and invited her to visit him. "I am deeply touched by your kind gesture," Rajan wrote in his reply. "I am aware this is a challenging time for the country and I have no doubt the economy will emerge stronger. I am returning the $20 note you had sent with the assurance that we have adequate foreign exchange reserves in RBI to manage the situation." When Alva headed to meet Rajan a few days later, she had several questions in place, like why the RBI has never had a female governor. "He said maybe you can become one some day," BBC quoted Alva repeating her conversation with Rajan. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27388104
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