New Delhi: Tamil Nadu’s Prime Minister MK Stalin Rupia symbol In the state budget on Thursday, replacing it with a Tamil letter in the midst of the “Hindi imposition” with the central government led by BJP. The DMK government replaced “₹” with the Tamil script “ரூ” In the 2025-26 budget logo of the State.
In return, the BJP quickly informed Stalin about Tamil Nadu’s man who designed the fallen rupee symbol and called the “stupid” DMK government movement.
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Who designed the Rupia symbol?
The current rupee symbol was designed by a Tamil Udaya Kumar designer.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu Chief of BJP, K Annamalai in X, said: “The state budget of the DMK government for 2025-26 has replaced the symbol of the rupee, which was designed by a Tamilian and adopted nationally as part of our currency. The creator of the symbol, Thiru Udhay Kumar, is the son of an old DMK MLA.” “
The second of four children, Udaya Kumar, was born from N Dharmalingam, a contractor, and Jayalakshmi in 1978 in Chennai. While doing his degree in architecture at the University of Anna, he designed posters and publications that helped him define his vocation: visual design.
“I realized that the Indian scripts do not have their design repertoire. After two years of trying to create something new in the Tamil typography, I realized that I should not work on my own. I needed expert guidance and, therefore, I arrived at the Industrial Design Center in Iit-Bombay,” Kumar to Toi told Toi in a previous interview.
How did Udaya Kumar designed a rupee symbol?
The design of the symbol of the Indian rupe of simple appearance was not easy for Udaya Kumar.
“I spent infinite nights in trial and error. The symbol had to have universal design characteristics while remained Indian in spirit,” Kumar told Toi.
That explains the propensity of its symbol towards the Latin letter, ‘r’ for the rupee, and the line through the upper curve, parallel to the ‘Shirorekha’, the line that directs the alphabet in the devanagari script. “Most international currencies have double blows such as the Australian dollar, the Korean yen, the euro or the lyre. The characteristic pronounces its identity as a currency,” he said.
