The New Indian Rupee Symbol

The Indian Rupee joins the league of the Dollars and Euros after all by having its own symbol as its identity for the world.

As you see, this is the new INR Symbol. This symbol was a result of a competition proposed by the Govt. of India on 5th March 2009, though after a long time since then, the Govt finally gave its verdict on 15th July 2010, as to what would be the new symbol for the Indian currency, and this was chosen.

This symbol has a lot to tell then what it shows, the new symbol is a blend of the Devanagari ‘र’ and the Roman capital ‘R’ without the stem. The parallel lines at the top(with white space between them) make an allusion to the tricolor Indian flag.

This symbol will be officially be included in the unicode and would be available in the text editors shortly like the Dollar and the Euro symbols.

It has given me one more reason to be proud about my country.

Jai Hind.