New Rupee Currency Symbol Design Hit By Corruption

[rohanusa]

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[rohanusa]

spam?

The selection for the prestigious Indian Rupee symbol has been made almost into the subject of mockery by the Indian bureaucracy system that was responsible for its proper execution.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

The selection for the prestigious Indian Rupee symbol has been made almost into the subject of mockery by the Indian bureaucracy system that was responsible for its proper execution.

Maybe they should outsource it to the U.S.

 

[deadlyapp]

The selection for the prestigious Indian Rupee symbol has been made almost into the subject of mockery by the Indian bureaucracy system that was responsible for its proper execution.

roflrofl

 

[FelixDeCat]

I'm outraged over this and plan to do nothing about it!

 

[rohanusa]

I'm outraged over this and plan to do nothing about it!

 

[MarkXIX]

This prestigious Rupee symbol?

Shit, I've collected about a million of these over the years, starting back in 1987. The red ones are the one's you want to get so you can buy potions at the potion store.

 

[rohanusa]

I just tweet this shit...

 

[Printer Bandit]

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/07/23/meet-the-man-behind-the-rupee-symbol/

 

[rohanusa]

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/07/23/meet-the-man-behind-the-rupee-symbol/

OMG Lolz ...

 

[SKORPI0]

:hmm:

 

[Printer Bandit]

 

[BoomerD]

I'm an American and don't care.

 

[Ms. DICKINSON]

I'm an American and don't care.

+1

 

[SandEagle]

One rupee is equivalent to .00000036 US dollars.

this guy should be on the rupee since he has done more for india than anyone else:

 

[preslove]

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/07/23/meet-the-man-behind-the-rupee-symbol/

That's a really nice design. The OP just seems like a weird smear site with atrocious grammar.

 

[Born2bwire]

That's a really nice design. The OP just seems like a weird smear site with atrocious grammar.

Yeah, the winner has some good ideas that he incorporated into the symbol.

 

[vshah]

srsly, who gives a fuck what the symbol looks like. its a symbol, interpret it however you want. I'll interpret it to mean "This number represents the currency of India"

 

[alfa147x]

I like rs better no need to have to look up some weird character...

 

[rohanusa]

I like rs better no need to have to look up some weird character...

The man who designed the award winning insignia for the rupees actually hails from a family attached to the DMK,which is supporting present congress goverment in india and gov. survining on DMK support only ....a party actually known for its pro-Tamil tilt or anti-Hindi agitation in the 60s and 70s.



According to RTI (Right To Infomation) Documents :


1.Non-eligible candidate was shortlisted in top five finalists. As candidate had submitted four designs.
2.One finalist was in contact with Finance Ministry and RBI prior to competition.
3.Design concept or brief was not put in front of jury along with Indian Rupee symbol design.
4.No marks or grades were allotted to selected (2644) candidates design entries, in the process of shortlisting top five finalist design entries.
5.Jury had spends less than 20 seconds on each design entries to analyze it .
6.Three jury member were absent in two days long meeting dated 29th Sept. and 30th Sept. 2009.
7.One jury member from Ministry of Culture was absent on the day of final presentation.
8.All seven jury member had never meet in this whole selection process in any given time.
9.No records are available with Finance Ministry which could indicated, how many total design entries Finance Ministry had received ?
10.Advertisement was only published in English language. (ONLY 23% indian undersatnd English)

 

[PhoKingGuy]

The man who designed the award winning insignia for the rupees actually hails from a family attached to the DMK,which is supporting present congress goverment in india and gov. survining on DMK support only ....a party actually known for its pro-Tamil tilt or anti-Hindi agitation in the 60s and 70s.



According to RTI (Right To Infomation) Documents :


1.Non-eligible candidate was shortlisted in top five finalists. As candidate had submitted four designs.
2.One finalist was in contact with Finance Ministry and RBI prior to competition.
3.Design concept or brief was not put in front of jury along with Indian Rupee symbol design.
4.No marks or grades were allotted to selected (2644) candidates design entries, in the process of shortlisting top five finalist design entries.
5.Jury had spends less than 20 seconds on each design entries to analyze it .
6.Three jury member were absent in two days long meeting dated 29th Sept. and 30th Sept. 2009.
7.One jury member from Ministry of Culture was absent on the day of final presentation.
8.All seven jury member had never meet in this whole selection process in any given time.
9.No records are available with Finance Ministry which could indicated, how many total design entries Finance Ministry had received ?
10.Advertisement was only published in English language. (ONLY 23% indian undersatnd English)

No one cares about why you think it was stupid, it looks fine and Indians usually look for any little excuse to get butthurt over anyway, this is just one of those.


<--- Indian

 

[edro]

What's wrong with $?

 

[Colt45]

Plenty of places don't even have a currency sign, I don't really see the need.

 

[grrl]

What's wrong with $?

Or 'R'?

 

[skace]

What's wrong with $? </americafuckyea>

hahaha