When was rupee symbol created

While writing in Hindi, a horizontal line called Shrio Rekha is drawn which is also a unique feature of Devnagri script. The Rupee symbol preserves this feature of the Indian script. The symbol has two horizontal lines with equal negative white space between them.

It creates a background effect of three stripes tricolor which subtly represent the Indian national flag flying at the top. Print this page A A A. Currency Symbol. About India India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world with a kaleidoscopic variety and rich cultural heritage.

Follow us. Abc Medium. Abc Large. ET Bureau. Dharmalingam Udaya Kumar was booked to fly to Guwahati on Thursday morning. On Friday he was to start his new job as assistant professor in the department of design at the Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati.

He was leaving the IIT Mumbai campus where he spent five years earning a PhD in industrial design—the first doctorate to be awarded in the discipline in India. The calls started pouring in early Thursday morning. He had won a nationwide contest run by the government to design a symbol for the Indian rupee. It would be incorporated in Unicode, computer keyboards will have a dedicated key for the symbol and it will come to be seen and recognised around the world.

For a man used to painstaking and solitary pursuit of meaning in symbols, typefaces and ancient Tamil manuscripts, the attention must have been unsettling. In the evening, cars came to haul him off to television studios. He would go to Guwahati the next day. Subscribe to ETPrime. Browse Companies:. Find this comment offensive?

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