NEW DELHI: IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar , who designed the "₹" symbol for Indian currency, distanced himself from the ongoing tussle between Centre and DMK-led Tamil Nadu government over three-language policy The controversy escalated after the DMK government replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its logo for the budget. Udaya said that the using or not using symbols are entirely up to the government. "I don't have any reaction.
It's the government which suddenly felt that there was a need for a change and they wanted to implement their own script. This is up to the state government. So, I don't have anything to say about that.
It's entirely up to the government," Kumar told news agency PTI. "My father was an MLA even before I was born. Now, he is old and living in our village, leading his life peacefully.
It just happened to be a coincidence, probably I could have been somebody else as well," He added. Udaya Kumar, an academic and designer from Tamil Nadu, was the man behind the distinctive rupee symbol, which was officially adopted by the Indian government on July 15, 2010. He is the son of a former DMK member of the legislative assembly from Rishivandiyam constituency, N Dharmalingam.
The second of four children, Udaya Kumar was born to N Dharmalingam, a contractor, and Jayalakshmi in 1978 in Chennai. While doing his bachelor's in architecture from Anna University, he designed posters and publications that helped him define his calling — v.