Finance, Forex and Investments

Why India need new symbol for It's currency, when we already have in Hindi "ru"??

The new symbol selected by assembly is bloody copy of Pound and Dollar, showing a habit of copying western Countries.

Public Comments

1. What relevance has this question to Languages? Please place it elsewhere.
2. Its just a crass political ploy by a crass politician who is convincing ignorant journalists that there is some sort of select club of global currencies. In fact there are just some currency symbols used in some countries. The US $ and the British £ are symbols shared with other currencies in other countries. See ₨ ( http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/… ), ৲ ( http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/… ), ৳ ( http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/… ), ૱ ( http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/… ), and ௹ ( http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/… ) for already existing rupee symbols in Unicode, I have no objection to the the introduction of the symbol. What I find objectionable is the dishonest political hype surrounding its introduction, as though there is some international monetary club which cares whether or not particular currencies have official or unofficial symbols or not. No-one has suggested that India or any country should be forced to use ₨ or any other symbol. But some of the hype associated with the introduction of this symbol suggests that national currencies with an associated symbol are in some way superior to those without, which is quite dishonest.
3. You are mistake, we are not having symbol of currency 'Rs'. or 'ru' as you said is the abbreviation of Rupees not symbol. One fails to understand if India declares symbol of its currency how it can be bloody copy...' ? Britain used their symbol in their flag we started much latter after Independence, was it a bloody copy ?