If everything goes fine on Thursday, 24th July, 2010 in the cabinet minister meeting, our Indian Rupee will gets it logo and will entered in the elite group of currencies like US Dollar, British pound, Euro, Japanese Yen which has its own unique symbol which distinguished the currency from others.
The contest to design the symbol is started the open contest by Finance ministry in Feb,2009 and there are thousands of logo were submitted and finally the five design were chosen which is submitted to today’s cabinet meeting and one lucky symbol will be chosen and its designer will get Rs 2.5 Lakh.
Pranab Mukherjee said on its budgetary speech this year, "In the ensuing year, we intend to formalise a symbol for the Indian rupee, which reflects and captures the Indian ethos and culture.”
Let us wish , INR will gets its symbol today.
Source : Yahoo.com