Designer statement on rupee symbol dispute.
Amid tension from the central government, the Tamil Nadu government has changed ₹ ₹ to ₹ in Tamil language in the state budget. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has targeted Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin over the move. One special thing related to this issue is that the rupee symbol ₹ was designed by the son of former MLA of MK Stalin’s party DMK. Now the statement of designer Professor Uday Kumar Dharmalingam of ₹ has come out on this entire controversy.
Professor Uday Kumar Dharmalingam, Professor of IIT Guwahati, who designed the symbol of Indian rupee, said- “I do not have complete information about the reasons behind this symbol change, possibly the state government has its own ways, thoughts and reasons to change the change. I designed it 15 years ago when the then central government held a competition and I won it, after which it was used and it is being used and it is being used in a wider.”
Professor Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam further said- “I am really happy due to being a designer of the rupee symbol, but I never thought that there would be such a debate. He just took such a turn and now there is a lot of concerns about the symbol.”
Dr. J., Executive Vice Chairman of Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission. Jairanjan also said that the Tamil Nadu government converted the rupee symbol (₹) into Tamil language in the Tamil Nadu budget of 2025-26- “We do not want to use Devanagari. That’s all that.”
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