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It is a news about Ms.K.Sahidhya in "The Hindu",a leading newspaper in India. For hassle-free dealings

SATHYAMANGALAM: It is a blank cheque from K. Sahidhya - one that perhaps solves bankers' hassles in clearance. The final year Information Technology student from the Bannari Amman Institute of Technology has the solution in a new cheque design and 1,117-line computer programme code that instantly processes cheques, and perfectly at that.

Her cheque incorporates all the features of a normal one. The modification is only at the places where date and amount are written. And, Ms. Sahidhya says, it complies with the specifications, stipulated under the Negotiable Instruments Act.

The date and amount are entered manually - as is done at present; but the way they are entered is a trifle different.

This design change was the first part of her project, which started casually following a suggestion by her Professor, Amitabh Wahi. "On July 10, Dr. Wahi gave me a paper on `A system for processing handwritten bank cheques automatically' and asked me come up with an alternative. The system it talked about, I found, had a two to three error percentage points, which was unacceptable, for error in reading amount in cheques could spell disaster in banking transactions. So, I decided to write an error-free, alternative code," she recalls. The paper, which detailed the problems in the U.S. perspective had difficulty in distinguishing `0' from `6' and `1' and `7', among others. "This is because no two handwritings are the same."To address the problem, she changed the cheque design and then moved on to key in a programme code that would read exactly what is written on the cheque to pursue successive commands.

"I worked on it right from day one, spending several hours in the mornings keying in the code. For the front-end operation, I used MatLab, and back-end MS Access 2000," she says.

She claims her programme saves a banker 10 to 15 minutes. In her efforts, she has recognition from the Idappadi Branch of the Indian Bank. The manager, acknowledging her effort, says: If it is implemented it will reduce most clerical tasks and it stops all fraudulent activities."