What did the IIT professor who designed the rupee symbol say on the decision of the Stalin government?

The dispute between Tamil Nadu and the Center over the three-language formula of the National Education Policy grew so much that the DMK government removed the Devanagari symbol of Rupee ‘₹’ from its logo for the budget and used the Tamil letter ‘ரூ’. However, the funny thing was that the symbol they removed was actually designed by a person from Tamil Nadu. What is even more important is that the person himself belongs to the DMK party.

Currently Professor D. Uday Kumar of IIT Guwahati designed the symbol of Rupee. His father has been a former DMK MLA in Tamil Nadu. Now when Uday Kumar was asked his opinion on this decision of the Stalin government, he kept himself completely away from this controversy and said his point.

‘It depends on the state government’

Uday Kumar said in a conversation with PTI, ‘I have no reaction to this. If the government felt that a change was needed and they want to replace it with the letter of their own script, then they can do it. It depends on the state government. I have nothing to say about this.’ He also said that it is just a coincidence that someone associated with Tamil Nadu and DMK designed it.

The symbol was adopted in 2010

This symbol of rupee was officially adopted by the Government of India on 15 July 2010. The Government of India had organized a competition in which Uday Kumar’s design was considered the best. After this, it was adopted as the new symbol of rupee.

Uday Kumar is a post graduate from IIT Bombay

Uday Kumar’s father N Dharmalingam has been a DMK MLA from Rishivandiyam constituency. Dharmalingam had four children. Uday Kumar was his second son. Uday was born in Chennai in 1978. He graduated from Anna University and then did post graduation from IIT Bombay.