The samples begin in January 2004 for Google searches and January 2000 for newspaper mentions. Google search frequencies have been normalized to take a value of 100 at their maximum. The methodology for computing newspaper mentions is described in L. Chen and S. Houle, “Turning Words into Numbers: Measuring News Media Coverage on Shortages,” Bank of Canada Staff Discussion Paper (forthcoming).
Accordingly, the content for the proposed curriculum change was developed by RBI and formally handed over by the Reserve Bank Governor to the Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka on September 22, 2009 during the Outreach Programme organized in Doddabelavangala village in Bengaluru Rural district.