The Indian rupee will accompany the dollar, yen, euro and batter with its own symbol.
The fresh bill figure is an admixture of the appearance for ''Ra'' in the age-old Devanagari calligraphy acclimated in Hindi and the Roman basic ''R'' after the stem.
''The attribute for the rupee would accommodate a characteristic appearance and character to the bill and added highlight the backbone and robustness of the Indian abridgement as additionally a favoured destination for all-around investments,'' the government said in a statement.
The addition of the rupee is attributed to the 16th aeon ruler, Sher Shah Suri, who congenital the acclaimed Grand Trunk Road from Kabul to Delhi. Until now it had been articular by the abbreviations ''Rs'', ''Re'' or ''INR''.
The Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, said he was blessed that the rupee had abutting the ''exclusive club of all-embracing currencies which accept their own appropriate symbols''.
The architecture was called in a antagonism won by Uday Kumar, a abecedary at one of India's top abstruse universities. His attribute was called from added than 3000 entries and he was awarded about $6250 in award-winning money.
The Information and Broadcasting Minister, Ambika Soni, affiliated the accommodation to accept a bill attribute to the growing acceptation of India to the all-around economy.
''The audible attribute denotes the robustness of the Indian economy,'' she said.
The Indian government has anticipation the abridgement to abound by 8.5 per cent this budgetary year and to advance to about 10 per cent aural bristles years.
The fresh attribute would be adopted gradually aural India and internationally over several years, Ms Soni said. It will be congenital on keyboards bogus in India and could eventually arise on bill and banknotes.
The attribute will standardise the announcement for Indian rupee beyond the country's abundant accent groups.
It ''reflects and captures the Indian appearance and culture'', the government said.
The attribute will additionally advice analyze the Indian bill from added civic currencies, abnormally those additionally appointed as rupee or rupiah, such as Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
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