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TheIndian rupee sign⟨₹⟩ is thecurrency symbolfor theIndian rupee(ISO 4217:INR), the officialcurrencyofIndia.Designed byD. Udaya Kumar,it was presented to the public by theGovernment of Indiaon 15 July 2010,[1]following its selection through an open competition among Indian residents.[2][3]Before its adoption, the most commonly used symbols for the rupee were ⟨Rs⟩, ⟨Re⟩ or, in texts in Indian languages, an appropriate abbreviation in the language used.

The design is based on theDevanagari letter⟨र⟩ (ra) with a double horizontal line at the top and theLatincapital letter ⟨R⟩ without its vertical bar.[4]

Origin[edit]

On 5 March 2009, the Indian government announced a contest to create a sign for the Indian rupee.[5][6]During the2010 Union Budget,then Union Finance MinisterPranab Mukherjeesaid that the proposed sign should reflect and capture the Indian ethos and culture.[7]From around 3,331 responses received, five symbols were shortlisted.[8]These were the entries from Nondita Correa-Mehrotra, Hitesh Padmashali, Shibin KK, Shahrukh J. Irani, and D. Udaya Kumar:[9][8]one of them was due to be selected at theUnion Council of Ministers of Indiameeting held on 24 June 2010.[10]However, the decision was deferred at the request of the Finance Minister,[11]and the final decision was made when they met again on 15 July 2010,[12]when they chose the symbol created byUdaya Kumar,Associate ProfessorIIT Guwahati.[13]

Design[edit]

Indian rupee symbol in graphic form

The new sign is a combination of theDevanagariletter ⟨र⟩ ( "ra" ) and theLatincapital letter ⟨R⟩ without its vertical bar. The parallel lines at the top (with white space between them) makes an allusion to the tricolourIndian flagand also depict an equality sign that symbolizes the nation's desire to reduce economic disparity.[4]

The final selected symbol was designed byD. Udaya Kumar,aBachelor of Architectureand (at the time) avisual designstudent at the Industrial Design Centre,IIT Bombay.The thoughts and philosophy behind the design are explained in this presentation.[4]

Approval[edit]

Ministry of Financeand Department of Economic Affairs of the Government of India had finally approved the sign. The approval was given by Sushil Kumar, Under Secretary of the Government of India in 2010.[14]

Usage[edit]

Two-rupee coin with the Rupee sign at the top.

Upon the symbol's adoption in July 2010, the Indian government said it would try to adopt the sign within six months in the country and globally within 18 to 24 months.[12]

Major banks have also started printing cheques with the new Indian rupee sign, where the traditional ⟨₨⟩ sign was used. The Indian Postal Department also started printing postage stamps with this new Indian rupee sign, when it issued the Commonwealth Games commemorative stamps on 3 October 2010.[15]In his budget speech on 28 February 2011, the finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, announced that the sign would be incorporated in future coin issues.[16]Coins of denomination of₹1,₹2,₹5, and₹10 with the new rupee symbol have been put into circulation.[17][18]As of January 2012, the new Indian rupee sign has been incorporated in the currency notes in the denominations of₹10,₹100,₹500, and₹1000[19][20][21][22]and as of 12 April 2012 this was extended to denominations of₹20 and₹50.[23]

Unicode and keyboard entry[edit]

Image of part of the number line of a keyboard, showing the Indian Rupee sign beside the figure 4
Keytop showing 4/$/₹ key.

On 10 August 2010, theUnicode Technical Committeeaccepted the proposed code positionU+20B9₹INDIAN RUPEE SIGN.[24]The character has been encoded in Unicode 6.0, and named distinctly from the existing characterU+20A8₨RUPEE SIGN,which will continue to be available as thegeneric rupee sign.[25][26]

Ubuntubecame the firstoperating systemto support the Indian rupee symbol by default in 2010. Sinceits 10.10 versionit has supported the symbol out-of-the-box,[27]as it was added to theUbuntu font familyby a contributor.[28]Since then, it has been included in variousLinuxdistributions. On systems running Ubuntu, most otherLinux distributionsandChromeOS,the symbol may be typed usingCtrl+⇧ Shift+u20B9Space(or simplyAltGr+4if the 'English (India)' language setting is used).

On 18 May 2011,Microsoftreleased an update KB2496898 toWindows Vista,Windows Server 2008,Windows 7andWindows Server 2008 R2operating systems to include support for this new Indian rupee symbol.[29]With the Windows update, it is now possible to usealt codetext entry to obtain the Indian Rupee symbol:Alt+8377.On systems runningWindows 8or later, the symbol can be typed using the 'English (India)' keyboard layout with the key combinationAltGr+4 (orCtrl+Alt+4orCtrl+⇧ Shift+4[30]). Modern keyboards for the Indian market have the symbol engraved on the4key as analternate graphic.[30]

Apple Inc.has added support for the rupee symbol withiOS 7in 2013.[31]Mac OS X Lion(10.7) also includes the new Indian rupee symbol, which can be found in the Character Viewer. As ofMac OS X Mountain Lion(10.8), users using theDevanagarikeyboard can enter the new Indian rupee symbol by typing⌥ Option-4(a combination that yields thecentsymbol on a US keyboard layout).

Sailfish OSalso provides the symbol in its default keyboard.

Symbol for Paisa[edit]

Proposed symbol for Paisa

A symbol for thepaisa⟨⟩ was also designed using the same concept as the symbol for rupee.[4]However, since paisa coins are no longer minted and, as of 2019 most denominations of the paisa have been demonetized, they are not in circulation. As the RBI had already stopped minting any paisa coins before this proposal, the proposed symbol never appeared on any coins.

Controversy[edit]

The Indian rupee sign selection process was challenged in theDelhi High Court,[32]by petitioner Rakesh Kumar, who was a participant in the competition, described the process as "full of discrepancies" and "flawed", and named the Finance Ministry and the chairman of Indian Rupee Symbol Selection Committee as respondents.[32]On 26 November 2010, the Delhi High Court single bench dismissed the writ petition, stating there was no justifiable ground for the stated allegations.[33]

However, later the Delhi High Court, on 30 January 2013, inW.P. (c) 2449/2012titledRakesh Kumar Singh Vs. Union of India(PIL) and listed before the Division bench of the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice V. K. Jain,[34]taking cognizance of and in view of the irregularities and arbitrariness involved in public competitions for designing symbols or logos or designing logos by other methods of important national bodies or institutions, in their judgment directed all the ministries of the Government of India to formulate or prepare guidelines to ensure transparency, wider participation of public and also that such guidelines should be of uniform nature and in uniformity with each others.[35]

On 11 April 2013, the Finance Ministry formed the guidelines for conducting public competitions for design of symbol or logo.[36]

Character mappings[edit]

Character information
Preview ₹ ₨
Unicode name INDIAN RUPEE SIGN RUPEE SIGN
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 8377 U+20B9 8360 U+20A8
UTF-8 226 130 185 E2 82 B9 226 130 168 E2 82 A8
Numeric character reference ₹ ₹ ₨ ₨

See also[edit]

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