On 5 March 2009, the Indian government announced a contest to create a sign for the Indian rupee. During the 2010 Union Budget, … See more

The new sign is a combination of the Devanagari letter ⟨र⟩ ("ra") and the Latin capital letter ⟨R⟩ without its vertical bar. The parallel lines at … See more

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.
Major banks have also started printing cheques with the … See more

A symbol for the paisa ⟨⟩ was also designed using the same concept as the symbol for rupee. However, since paisa coins are no longer minted and, as of 2019 most denominations … See more

Ministry of Finance and Department of Economic Affairs of the Government of India approved the sign. The approval was given by Sushil Kumar, Under Secretary of the Government of India in 2010. See more

On 10 August 2010, the Unicode Technical Committee accepted the proposed code position U+20B9 ₹ INDIAN RUPEE SIGN. The character has been encoded in Unicode 6.0, and named distinctly from the existing character U+20A8 ₨ RUPEE … See more

The Indian rupee sign selection process was challenged in the Delhi High Court, 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 … See more