Udaya Kumar ( designer ) - Wikipedia Udaya Kumar ( designer ) This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia 's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention. If notability can not be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources : `` Udaya Kumar '' designer -- news newspapers books scholar JSTOR ( May 2013 ) This biographical article needs more biographical information on the subject. Statistical information, such as date and place of birth, information on historical significance, and information on accomplishments is desired. Please remove this message when done. See this article 's talk page for more information. ( July 2013 ) Udaya Kumar ( 1978 - 10 - 10 ) 10 October 1978 ( age 38 ) Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu, India Residence India Nationality Indian Alma mater IDC, IIT Bombay ( PhD ) IDC, IIT Bombay ( MDes ) Anna University ( SAP, Chennai ) ( B. Arch. ) Occupation Associate professor, IIT Guwahati Known for The designer of the Indian rupee sign ( 2010 ) Notable work Indian rupee sign Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam born 10 October 1978 in Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu is the designer of the Indian rupee sign. His design was selected from among five short listed symbols. According to Udaya Kumar the design is based on the Indian tricolour. He is an assistant professor at IIT Guwahati. Contents 1 Personal life 2 Academics 3 Research 4 References 5 External links Personal life Udaya Kumar is son of N. Dharmalingam, a former DMK MLA Tamil Nadu. Academics Udaya Kumar finished his schooling from la chatelaine, chennai. He obtained a bachelor 's degree in architecture ( B. Arch ) from the School of Architecture and Planning ( SAP ) at Anna University, Chennai in 2001. Subsequently he received his master 's degree, an MDes in Visual Communication, from the Industrial Design Centre ( IDC ) of IIT Bombay in 2003. He also did his doctoral studies at the IDC, receiving his PhD in 2010. Research The rupee symbol His areas of interest include graphic design, typography, type design and design research with special focus on Tamil typography ( the subject of his doctoral research ). He has also designed a Tamil font named `` Parashakti '' as a mini project at the IDC, under the guidance of Prof. G.V. Sreekumar, who is one of the few font experts in the country. During his MDes project he wrote and designed a book on Tamil typography, which is the first attempt at bringing such a subject to a Tamil audience. In this book Udaya Kumar also created new Tamil terminology for many typographic terms where English words were used. He also provided guidance for the designing of the official mascot for the 49th Inter IIT Sports Meet. Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni approved the new Indian currency rupee symbol design conceptualized by Udaya Kumar on July 15, 2010. Udaya Kumar was awarded prize money of ₹ 250,000 for his efforts. References Jump up ^ Rupee gets a new symbol. Moneycontrol.com. Retrieved on 2011 - 11 - 19. Jump up ^ `` Final Selection for the Symbol for Indian Rupee -- List of Five Entries : Ministry of Finance, Government of India ''. Finmin.nic.in. Archived from the original on 25 July 2010. Retrieved 2010 - 07 - 30. Jump up ^ `` I hit upon representative Devanagari, says winner ''. The Hindu. Chennai, India. 16 July 2010. Jump up ^ Department of Design, IIT Guwahati. Iitg.ernet.in ( 17 May 2011 ). Retrieved on 2011 - 11 - 19. Jump up ^ `` ' My son has brought glory to TN ' ''. The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2016 - 03 - 29. Jump up ^ `` D. Udaya Kumar ''. IIT Mumbai. External links Udaya Kumar 's design proposal for the Indian rupee sign Official announcement of the sign WebRupee, guidance for use of the sign on the web WebRupee ₹ Drupal Project Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Udaya_Kumar_(designer)&oldid=778620180 '' Categories : Living people Indian Tamil people Artists from Chennai 20th - century Indian designers 1978 births Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati faculty Anna University alumni Indian Institute of Technology Bombay alumni Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from July 2013 Articles with topics of unclear notability from May 2013 All articles with topics of unclear notability Biographies with insufficient biographical information Articles with hCards Talk Contents About Wikipedia हिन्दी മലയാളം संस्कृतम् Edit links This page was last edited on 4 May 2017, at 07 : 07. About Wikipedia

Question: who designed the symbol of the indian rupee
Answer: Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam