{"id":15088,"date":"2010-07-17T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=15088"},"modified":"2020-01-16T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T19:54:07","slug":"india-approves-new-symbol-for-rupee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=15088","title":{"rendered":"India approves new symbol for rupee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/indian-rupee-symbol.jpg\" alt=\"indian-rupee-symbol.jpg\" height=\"534\" width=\"343\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\">\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">On 15 July 2010, India\u2019s Union Cabinet approved a symbol for the rupee which is a combination of the Roman \u201cR\u201d without the vertical stroke and the Devnagri letter \u201cra.\u201d The symbol was designed by Bombay IIT postgraduate D Udaya Kumar. A finance ministry official said the government is not planning to print banknotes with the new symbol. Historians say that the first \u201crupee\u201d was issued by Emperor Sher Shah Suri in the 15th century. One rupee was equivalent to 40 copper paisas then. The rupee is believed to be derived from the Sanskrit word raupya, which means silver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 July 2010, India\u2019s Union Cabinet approved a symbol for the rupee which is a combination of the Roman \u201cR\u201d without the vertical stroke and the Devnagri letter \u201cra.\u201d The symbol was designed by Bombay IIT postgraduate D Udaya Kumar. A finance ministry official said the government is not<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=15088\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,337,20],"tags":[74],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-15088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-banking","category-new-note","category-south-asia","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25682,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions\/25682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}