Symbol for Indian Rupee Released

The Indian currency notes, coins, computer keyboards, mobiles, softwares... etc., will be embedded with the newly designed symbol. The symbol was designed by  the IIT post-graduate Uday Kumar. He would be receiving 2.5 lakhs for designing the symbol. There were 3000 designs that were available for selection among which Uday Kumar's symbol got selected. The symbol is a mix of the Devanagri ''Ra'' and Roman ''R''. Indian rupee is the 5th currency in the world that would be identified by a symbol. The others are US dollar, British pound-sterling, Euro and Japanese yen to have its own symbol.