CURRENCY SYMBOL FOR INDIAN RUPEE

CURRENCY SYMBOL FOR INDIAN RUPEE

Mr D. Udaya Kumar,Assistant professor,IIT Guwahati decided to participate in the competition to create a symbol for the rupee.The Devanagari scirpt is most extensively used in the country.

Mr Kumar said the horizontal line on top used in the Devanagari script was unique to  India. The two horizontal line and the band between also represent the indian flag’.

Mr D Udaya kumar is a native of Kallakurchi in Tamil Nadu. He completed most of his schooling in Chennai. After studying at the school of Archirecture and planning at AnnaUniversity, he did his masters at the India Institute of Technology Bombay starting 2001 before enrolling for a ph.D in 2005.

Prof.John Kurakar