Cabinet approves new rupee symbol

New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) The union cabinet Thursday approved the new symbol for the Indian rupee – an amalgam of the Devnagiri ‘Ra’ and the Roman capital ‘R’ without the stem.

The symbol, designed by an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) postgraduate D. Udaya Kumar, was selected from among five shortlisted symbols before the cabinet, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said after the cabinet meeting.

“It is just a symbol,” she told reporters.

?I feel really great. I don?t have words to express my happiness. Really thrilled,? D. Udaya Kumar told a television channel grinning. ?I can?t think anything in my mind right now.? (I thought I had an edge, says designer of rupee symbol)

Some of Indians doesn’t like this symbol for Indian Rupee and expressed their view on internet as blogs, comments on news websites.