UPDATE : New symbol has been chosen and you can read more details about it here – New Symbol for Indian Rupee finalized.
Are we going to have a new symbol to represent Indian Rupee? According to Indian finance ministry, the ‘Change’ factor seems to have hit India and its currency. The Government of India will be conducting a competition to partner with public in order to come up with an ‘Innovative symbol for Indian Rupee’. The finance ministry site has all the details and the best part of the whole program is that we too can involve in the process of coming up with a new symbol.
What it means is that each one of us have an equal chance of winning a grand prize money of INR 2,50,000/-. The top 5 selections will receive Rs 25K each irrespective of getting selected as the final symbol. The jury of examiners would consist of seven members drawn from various organizations in the field of arts, finance, culture, history etc., All we need to do is to come up with a creative symbol(similar to $, €, ¥, £ etc.,) keep the following things in your mind and you could be in the pages of history!
The symbol should
- Represent the historical and cultural prominence of the country.
- Be widely acceptable across the country.
- Be applicable to standard keyboard.
- Be in the Indian National Language Script or a visual representation.
For more details visit finance ministry website and my best wishes are with you! Ensure that your entry reaches the right people latest by 1300 hours on 15th April 2009. Keeping all that aside, what do you feel about the whole episode of coming up with new currency symbol? Do we really need it?
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इतनी ज्यादा गड़बड़ी के बावजूद मीडिया के लोगो का ध्यान इस मामले पर क्यों नहीं जा रहा है. यह आरोप लगाना की हिंदी के राजनीतिक इस चयन के पीछे है, यह बात समझ में नहीं आती, यदि कोई राजनीतिक पार्टी इसको लेकर जागरूक होती तो अब तक इस सम्मानित घोटाले पर हो हल्ला जरूर होता. मेरे विचार से इस मामले को लेकर मीडिया भी संदेह से ग्रस्त है. आज तक यह नहीं पता चल रहा है की इस मामले पर मीडिया चुप क्यों है. हा, यह हो सकता है बिल्ली के गले में घंटी कौन बांधे. कुल मिलकर कंप्यूटर कम्पनीयों की चांदी हो गयी है.
Most ugliest design of the Millenium .. Only the Hindi politicians are behind this selection..
@Shankugam.
1st Violation-Guideline of indian rupee symbol compt. “The symbol has to be in the Indian National Language script or a visual representation.
2nd Violation article 351 The Constitution of Indian.
The article 351 constitution of india.
” Directive for development of the Hindi language It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to develop it so that it may serve as a medium of expression for all the elements of the composite culture of India and to secure its enrichment by assimilating without interfering with its genius, the forms, style and expressions used in Hindustani and in the other languages of India specified in the Eighth Schedule, and by drawing, wherever necessary or desirable, for its vocabulary, primarily on Sanskrit and secondarily on other languages PART XVIII EMERGENCY PROVISIONS”
Total 22 Languages of India at present time.
Dear Please see facts and legal view.
We have made the first font with support for Indian currency symbol.
How to use ?
1. Download the above attached font inr2.ttf from progment.com
2. Install the font. (It is easy. Just copy the font and paste it in “Fonts” folder in control panel)
3. Start using it. :) by typing Shift + 6 (^)
New symbol for indian rupee has been announced and you can read more about it here New symbol for Indian Rupee Announced
Very bad news. It is a national same. This is a curreption symbol Politiction and Burocracy of India.
The Competition doesn’t have any meaning now to the Authority as the person they nominated and the deal made amongst them are all fruitless.
No Gain – No Rupee Sign – There always lies a Selfish cause behind each event in India.
Possibly some ancient Sanskrit/Hindi symbol can be used?
wonder what happened to the competition :O
oh ya I read about this. pretty cool huh! don’t know how a new symbol for the rupee will make any kind of difference.
RTI Activist exposed violation of guidelines and biased selection process in “Indian Rupee Symbol” design competition.
According to RTI Documents :
Mr. Mohan we know you had commented on our website ..but in updating our comment coding you comment got deleted mistakenly.
We request you to please back link our story as update and blog about it in national interest….and show to the world taht you are also a true indian as rest of us and enough is enough..
Very Very Thank Mohan je.
well i like the idea of giving such chance to the people of participating in such great & noble cause .Its a good way of knowing the talent & art of people.
Let us propose Indian rho (ρ)
There is a lot of controversy going on about the 5 Indian Rupee Symbols that have been shortlisted. I personally don’t like them. I’m sharing the one I had designed and which got through the first round but was later not taken up. Would be great to get your feedback on it, here is the link.
That is a great design mate! I really liked the innovative design you have come up with.
Why not simply use ‘+’ as the symbol to denote it? (or perhaps a stylized + with longer vertical stroke or as a small sign on the upper right hand corner smaller than the figure height)
i.e 10+ as Rs10
+ is the symbol for Ka in brahmi
and brahmi is the earliest of all Indian scripts. So it could stand for _tanka_ which was the earlier name for rupee. alternatively it could also stand for rupyaka of sanskrit from which rupee is derived.
It being in brahmi is a bonus because our nation pays homage to emperor Ashoka and brahmi was the script developed during his time possibly under his direction.
It also satisfies the requirement of usability from a standard keyboard since ‘+’ is available in all keyboards, and it is easy to write for some one since it is just two strokes.
Dear all Pl. see this link..
RTI Activist exposed : Mismanagement and violation of guidelines in “Indian Rupee Symbol” design competition.
According to RTI Documents :
1. No records are available with Finance Ministry which could indicated, how many total design entries Finance Ministry had received ?
2. Non-eligible candidate was shortlisted in top five finalists.
3. One finalist was in contact with Finance Ministry and RBI prior to competition.
4. Design concept or brief was not put in front of jury along with Indian Rupee symbol design.
5. No marks or grades were allotted to selected (2644) candidates design entries, in the process of shortlisting top five finalist design entries.
6. Jury had spends less than 20 seconds on each design entries to analyze it.
7. One jury member from Ministry of Culture was absent on the day of final presentation.
8. Three jury member were absent in two days long meeting dated 29th Sept. and 30th Sept. 2009
9. All seven jury member had never meet in this whole selection process.
if we change currency symbol ?
so we have to make all new currency , coins & notes
what about old coins & notes is it will go to garbage
please think about it
don’t worry mr.Ananye De no one in these designs is finalised(see mr. Rakesh’s previous comment) Our ministry take 18 seconds(3 days) for choosing five candidates among 4000 ,but after seven months they could not choose one among five,what a TAMASHA all this.
4000 entries came for the design symbol. each person paid Rs.500/- for submitting the designs….that means about 20lakh rupees went into the govt. kitty but they came out with these flawed 5 designs.
come one if they had to only put an equalto sign on a Hindi ‘ra’ why make a such a public fiasco of throwing open the design to common man?
A) no. 1 and no.2 look like an extension of the Rx symbol of doctor’s prescription.
B) no. 2 cannot be drawn with the hand as it has a gap in continuity of the letter R
c) No. 3 and no. 4 will the equal to sign will become invisible at 6 pt. or 8 pt size.
4) no. 5 is the easiest copy of any other world symbol.
SO WHAT ALL THAT BIG EXCERCISE ABOUT? simply to earn 20,00000 rupees… DOES IT MEAN THAT THE 4000 designs we useless….????
none of the symbols represent any ethos of the INDIA, MONEY, WEALTH or IDENTITY OF INDIA.
Besides why should it be in Devnagri, when there are so many languages in India… it shuold have been a nice symbol with an R….
None of the five designs are the actual shortlisted ones. Media publish 5 symbol already present/publish in this Blog Dated 26 APRIL 2009. Important Juri meeting held on 29, 30 Sep. 2009. Kindly read link….
I wonder what the finance ministry was thinking when it penned down those conditions applicable to choice of a particular design. What in the world does it mean by “the National Language script” of India? We, as a federal republic nation comprising of so many languages, and in fact 22 odd languages officially recorded as the official languages of India (as per Schedule 8), dont actually have *ONE* national language, neither do we have *ONE* script that can represent the entire nation.
So continuing on this reasoning path, I wonder how the Fin-Ministry’s decision can be unbiased towards any people of one particular language? In fact if Hindi is what the Fin-Min is implying here, mind you, the script that Hindi uses is itself not its own! It borrows the Devanagari Script. So when coming up with a symbol, I guess graphical symbol creations (like the Pie) must be encouraged rather than a letter/character from a particular script that doesnt totally represent the entire nation.
Finance Ministry, it is time to wake up to the articles in the Indian Constitution and realize that there’s no such thing as a National Language of India, let alone having a script for this particular language.
Today the symbol is being picked from among 5 chosen designs, and seriously none of them are any different from each other, and all of them appear to be straight copies of $, Euro, Yen, Pound design styles, only slightly fiddled with to make it resemble the devanagari “R” character!
Actually I would say selection of any one among these 5 is going to be an equally bad blow to all the linguistic (and script) diversity that we find in this country. So the whole exercise is going to make it appear more painful for the rest of the country that doesnt use the Devanagari script in day-to-day life.
None of the five designs are the actual shortlisted ones
first of all hindi is not the national language.all the official work done in the parliament has been recorded in hindi so a devnagri ‘ra’ was the best way to represent indian currency officialy.moreover the line in the mid makes it look different.i think it is a good symbol but i do appreciate all the entries given by the people.
Play of INR symbol comp.
लगी खेलने लेखनी, सुख-सुविधा के खेल।
फिर सत्ता की नाक में, डाले कौन नकेल।।
Hindustan Times reported about “Indian Rupee Design Scam”
Hindustan Times Hindi- Lucknow 18 March
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Hindustan Times Hindi- Lucknow 19 March
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Great Job Guys….
Good to know that. Thanks for sharing the info.
how come media is silent about this. there is so much discussion on this blog and chetan’s blog.
Is media blind to all this?
Is any newspaper probing into this? Has anyone informed newspapers to investigate on this immediately?
is it worth going to court after the final winner is announced in the coming days or should it be done now itself?
Finance Minister has announced in his budget speech that govt will very soon give symbol for rupee. Iam sure he is not aware of the fraud played by the bureucracy. In 2 and half days the outstanding talents of India have gathered together and evaluated? only God knows how many entries at a mind blowing speed and now to decide the final winner they have lost all the stamina and energy. I am sure Godfathers of final 5 and mastermind are fighting with each other for the crown otherwise they would not have missed the shubh muhurt of Budget to declare the design and winner.Can we proudly say that we are Indians?
Mr Aakash ji, what is update.
Dear, Aakash, I want to contact you urgently PL.
I feel we should ask the following question also:
The contest circular said that the symbol should reflect the “historical and cultural ethos of India”.
But the criteria as spelt out by an RBI official to Business Standard on 17th of december,2009, says that:- “The symbol of the rupee will have an iconic meaning, which is to convey the brand value of the currency and the nation. The launch of a symbol is a step towards making it internationally acceptable for trading,” a senior RBI official said.
I can’t understand how these 2 criteria are same. “Brand value of the currency and the nation … for trading” is very different from “historical and cultural ethos…”. This is just not acceptable.
If they had spelt out the cirteria very clearly before the contest then we designers would have designed the symbol accordingly.
This is definitely another point to be raised.
fin min ne jury ko theem concept nahi bheja kaya yeh guidline ke aurup hai. yek symbol ko kevel 3 minit ka samay diya. kaya sambav hai. Nondita ke dwara diye gaye suchv ke bare me kaya rai hai.
( Reg. The Symbol for Indian rupee competition )
BFFORE THE FIRST APPELLATE AUTHORITY UNDER SECTION 19[1]
OF THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005
In the matter of:
APPEAL PREFERRED BY SHRI RAKESH KUMAR SINGH AGAINST THE ORDER DATED 7TH JANUARY 2010 OF CPIO, DEA.
ORDER
This appeal has been filed by Shri Rakesh kumar singh against the order dated 7.1.2020 of the CPIO of Department of Economic Affairs.
2. In his application dated 14-12-2009 addressed to the CPIO, the applicant had sought information on 14 points relating to the competition of symbol of Indian rupee. The CPIO furnished the information on 7-1-2010. The appellant is not satisfied with the information furnished on 3 points, i.e. Point No. 1, 4 & 13 and hence this appeal on these points.
3. Comments of CPIO have been invited. The points on which the appellant is not satisfied with the reply of the CPIO and the factual position is discussed in the succeeding paragraphs.
4. In point No.1 of his application, the applicant had asked in information about the name, profession and the home-state of the members of Jury appointed by the Government for finalisation of the design of Indian Rupee. The CPIO furnished the name/designation of the member of the jury along with the organization and place where the organization is located. The information relating to home-state of the member is not maintained and as such this information cannot be provided.
5. In point No.4, the applicant had asked information as to the number of total designs received and out of those how many have been rejected. The CPIO informed him that there were 3,331 eligible entries, out of which 5 Final entries were selected by the Jury. This should satisfy the query of the applicant.
6. In point No. 13, applicant had sought information about the date and mode of information to the contestants about the selection of 5 designs. The CPIO had informed him that final result is yet to be decided. In the comments, CPIO had intimated that the information to the selected contestants was sent on 25-11-2009 through letter. This information was also posted on the website of the Ministry in December 2009. This should satisfy the query of the applicant.
7. In view of above observations, the appeal is disposed off.
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प्रिय साथियों,
जय हिंद,
श्री सुशील कुमार, अवर सचिव भारत सरकार एवम सी.पी.आई.ओ. ने आर0टी0आई0 एक्ट २००५ के उन्तर्गत लेटर संख्या यफ.स. ३/४०/२००९-करेंसी दिनाक ०८ फरवरी, २०१० द्वारा निम्नानुसार सूचना दी गयी :-
प्रश्न १- फ़ाइनल ५ के प्रत्येक अभ्यर्थियों का जूरी के सम्मुख प्रजेंटेसन किन- किन तिथियो मे कहाँ-कहाँ हुआ तथा प्रत्येक अभ्यर्थी/टीम ग्रुप द्वारा अपने-अपने सिम्बल को प्रजेंट करने मे कितना-कितना समय का उपयोग किया गया.
उत्तर- फ़ाइनल ५ के अभ्यर्थियों का प्रजेंटेसन १५-12-२००९ को जूरी के सम्मुख हुआ. प्रत्येक अभ्यर्थी को प्रजेंटेसन के लिए (मोखिक रूप से) १०-१० मिनट का समय दिया गया है.
प्रश्न २- क्या प्रत्येक प्रजेंटेसन की वीडियोग्राफी करायी गयी.
उत्तर- नहीं.
प्रश्न 3- जूरी के सम्मुख कुल ३३३१ डिजाइनो को प्रस्तुत की गयी किन्तु मंत्रालय के वेबसाईट मे २६४४ के लिस्ट प्रकाशित की गयी. इसका क्या कारण है.
उत्तर- वेबसाईट मे केवल सभी शर्ते पूर्ण करने वाली प्राविस्थिया भेजने वाले अभ्यर्थियों के नाम दिए गए है. किसी-किसी अभ्यर्थी ने दो-दो डिजाइन भी दिए थे.
प्रश्न 4- जिन अभ्यर्थियों की डिजाइन अपूर्ण थी क्या उनको कतिपय सुधार हेतु सूचित किया गया. एसे अभ्यर्थियों की संख्या.
उत्तर- डिजाइन को पूर्ण करने के लिए या सुधार करने के लिए किसी को नहीं कहा गया.
प्रश्न 5- कितने डिजाइनर के मूल डिजाइन (बायोडाटा, स्क्रिप्ट व डिमांड ड्राफ्ट) उनको वापस किया गया तथा कितने ऐसे डिजाइनर है जिन्होंने त्रुटि को सुधार कर मंत्रालय को भेजा.
उत्तर- मूल डिजाइन (बायोडाटा, स्क्रिप्ट व डिमांड ड्राफ्ट सहित) जो कि निर्धारित अवधि मे प्राप्त हो गए थे, वापिस नहीं भेजे.
प्रश्न ६- क्या फ़ाइनल ५ के अभ्यर्थियों मे से किसी ने दो डिजाइन से अधिक डिजाइन प्रेषित की थी.
उत्तर- नहीं.
प्रश्न 7- वित्त मंत्रालय की वेबसाईट पर तीन किश्तों मे प्रकाशित २६४४ डिजाइनो के अतिरिक्त ६८७ डिजाइनो के सूची क्यों नहीं प्रकाशित की गयी.
उत्तर- २६४४ डिजाइन नहीं है, वह तो अभ्यर्थियों के नाम है.
प्रश्न ८- कुल अर्ह ३३३१ डिजाइनो के स्क्रिप्ट किन-किन भाषाओ मे प्राप्त हुई तथा उनकी भाषावार संख्या.
उत्तर- डिजाइन की कोई भाषा नहीं होती. स्क्रिप्ट हिंदी. अंगरेजी, तेलगू, मलयालम आदि भाषाओ मे प्राप्त हुई.
प्रश्न 9- शासनादेश/गाइडलाइन मे उल्लिखित “इंडियन नॅशनल लान्ग्वेग” उन्तर्गत वित्त मंत्रालय की नजर मे कौन-कौन सी भाषाए है.
उत्तर- संविधान द्वारा मान्यता प्राप्त सभी भाषाए.
प्रश्न 10- भारतीय रूपये के सिम्बल हेतु क्या पूर्व मे किसी भारतीय या विदेशी नागरिक का प्रस्ताव, प्रार्थानपत्र या सुझाव आदि किसी स्तर से प्राप्त हुआ. यदि हाँ तो उसका विवरण.
उत्तर- श्रीमती नॉनदिता कोरिया, भारतीय नागरिक से सुझाव प्राप्त हुआ था.
प्रश्न 11- भारतीय रूपये के सिम्बल की आवश्यकता के पीछे मूल कारण की सूचना.
उत्तर- इस विभाग के विज्ञापन मे उल्लेख किया गया है.
प्रश्न १२- प्रत्येक डिजाइन के प्रजेंटेसन हेतु कितना समय निर्धारित किया गया था.
उत्तर- दस मिनट तथा जूरी द्वारा उठाए गए प्रश्नों के उत्तर का समय.
प्रश्न 13- जूरी ने केवल पाँच सिम्बल चयनित किये या उससे अधिक भी.
उत्तर- विज्ञापन के अनुसार जूरी को केवल पाँच प्रतीकों का चयन करना था.
प्रश्न १४- गाइडलाइन मे उल्लिखित “स्टैंडर्ड की बोर्ड” से क्या आशय है
उत्तर- computero मे लगा सामान्य की बोर्ड.
प्रश्न १५- अंतिम डिजाइन के चयन के पश्चात क्या शेष समस्त डिजाइनो का स्क्रिप्ट सहित प्रकाशन वेब साईट पर किया जायेगा.
उत्तर- नहीं.
प्रश्न 16- जूरी द्वारा पाँच प्रतिभागियों के चयन की संस्तुति किस तिथि को प्रेषित की गयी तथा वित्त मंत्रालय को किस तिथि को प्राप्त हुई.
उत्तर- १५-१२-२००९ को.
प्रश्न १७- क्या जूरी ने पाँच प्रतिभागियों मे से फायनल एक की भी संस्तुति की है.
उत्तर- अंतिम निर्णय विचाराधीन है.
प्रश्न १८- कुल अर्ह ३३३१ अभ्यर्थियों द्वारा डिमांड ड्राफ्ट द्वारा प्रेषित रुपया कितना है.
उत्तर- २६४४ योग्य अभ्यर्थियों के द्वारा भेजे गए ५००-५०० रुपए डिमांड के ड्राफ्ट जमा किये गए.
My friends Cry will not help us here and we need to stand up and file this RTI…. I am doing it Bcz i got Balls …. How about you?
Officer said regarding RTI Answer…Only symbol of the applicant was presented to the Jury for selection.
But GUIDELINE–Theme synopsis and concept is required to be
submitted. The symbol should represent the historical & cultural ethos of the country as widely accepted across the country.
THIS IS IMPASSIBLE AND FROD. MY OPINION THE COMPETITION WAS FREE FIX. Injustice for all artist and the country. Pl all Try Try Try are cry cry. Oh God. Satymev jayete.
Rakesh kumar singh has already received shocking information by filing RTI. One can only cross check that information by filing another RTI application.The enthusiasm with which ads were given in various newspapers, the same was not shown while declaring the final 5 designs because their conscience was not clear and they new very well that since people are filing RTI, they have tough time ahead.They were supposed to declare the winner in January,they have not done so far. Bureaucratic Tamasha will be there to see for everyone.
That was only a tip of iceberg …. So now stop shouting and act now…..
File above RTI …..
RTI is a best tool to fight bureaucracy and injustice …making an application under RTI and asking for specific information, the department has to furnish the information within 1 month.
If the applicant is not happy or all the information asked for is not provided then an appeal lies to appellate authority designated in that department.
Later on this becomes the base for filing a suit in the court.
Remember the are doing this to you and hurting you dignity because you let them do it !!! So stop talking and start acting…. I am socked as well earlier every one shouting here about injustice and now while we did all the homework for you guys, now one got balls to file it what a shame….
Thanks for all the info. Wish some concerned person is reading this.
From the day one I am closely following this great Indian bureaucracy tamasha . By profession I am concept head and brand strategy planner… in my career I launched national as well international brands
What I noticed and learned is… failing of brand and not getting recognised in market as a brand ….
Not only depends upon how you marketed that brand….but also how much efforts your creative powerhouse taken to create that image…
So to create a successful brand identity the whole process of brainstorming and vibes of designers should be clear from all kind doubt and blames.
But its oposit here in designing of rupee symbol case, whole process came under doubts from the day one because of its very confusing and unclear guidelines.
And lately RTI filed by someone from design field which exposed other discrepancies in short listing process too. More than 800 shortlisted entries were never been published in public domain…. while declaring eligible number of shortlisted design entries.
So, finally I set with my advocate and drafted down below Open RTI application… which any one of you could file it..
It takes us 3 working days to understand what really going and finally drafted all our queries on paper.
We divided queries in 4 separate RTI’s because some time authorities rejected RTI application by saying you are asking too much information.
RTI is a best tool to fight bureaucracy and injustice …making an application under RTI and asking for specific information, the department has to furnish the information within 1 month. If the applicant is not happy or all the information asked for is not provided then an appeal lies to appellate authority designated in that department.
Later on this becomes the base for filing a suit in the court.
Let me make it very clear here guys we the Young and creative mind of India is not so dull to follow a mute justice!!
We are lucky to have one last chance, as a RTI ….to make some positive change for the betterment of our Currency symbol design and by participating in this exercise we can get our dignity back…
So guys file RTI Now…
Step By Step Guidelines – How to File RTI for “Symbol for Indian Rupee” Under RTI ACT 2005:
1. Download the editable RTI file from here – http://www.scribd.com/doc/25924085/RTI-Symbol-for-Indian-Rupee-Design which includes total 4 numbers of RTI’s by clicking above link.
2. Read full RTI application and fill all requested information from your end.
3. Now click on this given link http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Netscape/POs_UPSC.html#A.P.S which will take you to state wise Post offices locator on Indian Post office website.
4. Find nearest Post office and ask for 10RS/- Indian Postal order (IPO) in favor of Accounts officer, Appellate Authority Deptt. Of Economic Affairs, New Delhi .
5. Fill your IPO information in each RTI application and make photocopy of each IPO too.
6. Now make photocopy of all 4 final completely filled RTI application.(for your reference)
7. Post all 4 RTI applications with IPO in 4 different sealed envelope via POST OFFICE REGISTED POST/ Speed post ONLY.
8. To – Shri Surjit Singh., Director & Appellate Authority Deptt. Of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Room No. 68, North Block,New Delhi – 110001
9. Don’t forget to collect your all 4 postal proof of mailing
10. Now go to http://services.ptcmysore.gov.in/speednettracking/ and check your speed post delivery status online.
Note: Under RTI ACT 2005 no application will be entertained without paying 10Rs fee.
Have happy RTIing
I do not know why media is silent over this issue. Are they atleast aware of it? Evaluating 3331 entries in 2 and half days deserves bharat ratna to the jury. Is prime minister, finance minister aware of this? Bureaucracy has never allowed this country to progress. Media – wake up
1)Smt. Usha Thorat, Deputy Governor, RBI, Mumbai-Chairman
and she found four entries from mumbai.
2)Shri K.V. Eapen, Joint Secretary, Deptt. of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi.
He is from kozhikode,kerala and he discover Mr.kk shibin,
from kozhikode,kerala.
Rest of Indians are duffer because they have no Godfather.
Wake up SIDS and join hands against this unfair justice with us.Make a joint RTI and recheck your exams by CBI or CAG.
Mr. Rakesh kumar singh given information bellw.
Information under RTI Act, 2005
Given by Shr Sushil Kumar, Under Secretary to the Govt. of India & CPIO—–F.No. 3/40/09-Cy Dated 7th January, 2010
Que. 1 Name, Professian & Home State of all the member of jury
Ans.
(i) Smt. Usha Thorat, Deputy Governor, RBI, Mumbai-Chairman.
(ii) Shri K.V. Eapen, Joint Secretary, Deptt. of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi.
(iii) Ms. T. Kumar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, New Delhi.
(iv) Smt. Aditi Mehta, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, New Delhi.
(v)Shri Anil Sinha, Chairperson, Integrated Desgin Services and Industry Programmes & Projects, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
(vi) Professor Hemant Nagdive, Director, JJ School of Arts, Mumbai.
(vii) Shri Bazil Shaikh, Chief General Manager, RBI, Mumbai.
Que. 2-How meny desins received in hindi/English & other languages out of eligible 2644 designs.
Ans -The Designs do not have any Language, it is the shape (Drawing) only.
Que. 3-How meny meetings when , where & each date of meeting, time taken for the meeting & average time of applicant design taken reg. Totat entries of evaluation ?
Ans. Meetings of Jury were held on 29/30 September, 2009 in Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi and on 16th November, 2009 in Reserve Bank of India, New Delhi for evaluation of entries. The meetings on 29th and 30th September were from 10.00AM to 5.00PM and the meeting meeting on 16th November was from 2-00 PM to 5.00PM
Que. 4- Total received deigns and total of rejects deigns?
Ans. There are 3331 eligible entries out of which five final entries were selected by the jury.
Que. 7- The script of applicant which in Hindi language be translate in other language presents before jury.
Ans. Only symbol of the applicant was presented to the Jury for selection.
Que. 10- Explain briefly the rule (hindi-MANAK) of as widely accepting across the INDIA.
Ans. The criteria adopted by the Jury in selecting the symbol was that the symbol should represent the historical and cultural ethos of the country as widely accepted across the Country and that the symbol has to be in the Indian National Language script or a visual representation. The second stage of selection focused on finer details such as whether the symbol
(i) is distinct;
(ii)can evoke a ready recall in India as well as internationally;
(iii) is not unduly cluttered, i.e. simplicity;
(iv) has strength of design;
(v) is easy to write and typecast; and
(vi) has integrity, unity of form and compact look
Que. 11-The Biodata of eligible design put-up before jury or Coding Procedure in applied?
Ans. Coding procedure was adopted.
yeh paricha pardarsi nahi hi, juri ne non propsneil ko mahtv nahi diya. juri free honi chahiye na ke govrnment ke adheen honi chahiye. rajneetik partiya he iska virod karengi. rbi ne mumbai ke logog ko mahtv diya hi keral ke diginer dami condidate hai. 2644 sey voting karana chhiye tatha unka vichar lena chahiye, juri bhang sarkey new juri bani jane chahi jo ke sarkar ka dabav sey mukt ho. sarkari adhikari nahi’ ve to sarkar ke jai bolege hi.
dear all
Pl read news (ECO. TIMS)
“I had written to the RBI in 2005 saying we should have a symbol for the rupee,” said Nondita Correa-Mehrotra , one of the finalists, more marvelling at the coincidence of it all than implying it may have influenced the government.
Correa-Mehtorta is a Harvard University-trained architect and works at her father’s firm—Mumbai-based Charles Correa Associates. The final list pits two leading advertising agencies against each other for the big honour—JWT and Publicis Ambience.
Hitesh Padamshali is a creative director, design, at JWT’s Mumbai office, while Shahrukh J Irani is a creative director at Publicis Ambience. The list also has a typography scholar in D. Udaya Kumar, a PhD candidate at IIT Mumbai’s Industrial Design Centre. He is preparing to defend his dissertation—Transformation of Tamil letter forms from palm leaf manuscripts to early letter press printing—early next year.
Shibin KK, a computer science teacher at a government higher secondary school near Thalasserry, Kerala, is the fifth finalist, and an outsider of sorts with no formal training in drawing or design. However, he takes up freelance design work.
For the five finalists, it’s a agonising wait till the symbol is unveiled.
कृपया बी एस रावत जी से
पूछे ———–
१-
२- जूरी के सामने समस्त २६४४ प्रतिभागियो का बायोडाटा भेजा गया की नहीं? अखिल भारतीय पारीछा मे बायोडाटा नहीं भेजा जाता जैसे – यू .पी.एस.सी. और लोक सेवा आयोग, कर्मचारी चयन आयोग आदि.
३- जूरी के केवल दो सदस्य आर्ट फील्ड से है अन्य पाँच सदस्य आर्ट फील्ड से है या नहीं ?
४- Nondita Correa-Mehrotra ने २००५ मे सिम्बोल हेतु आर .बी.आई /गवर्नमेंट को लिखा था, इसकी जानकारी को बी एस रावत जी ने छिपाया की नहीं (भारत दक्षिण-एशियाई क्षेत्र में मुक्त व्यापार लागू करने के बाद एक ही मुद्रा का प्रचलन शुरू करना चाहता है-नवभारत टाइम्स)
५- जूरी का नाम आज तक प्रकाशित नहीं किये जाने का क्या कारन हैं ?
६- अन्नंतिम पाँच लोगो का नाम प्रकाशित करने के पहले मंत्री/कैबिनेट का
अनुमोदन लिया गया या नहीं? “RBI has given its recommendations, but it will need the approval of the finance minister as well as the Cabinet.
७- जूरी ने अंतिम एक प्रतिभागी की recommendations (संस्तुति) भी कर दी की नहीं?
८- aswidely accepted across the the country. के लिए कौन सी टेक्निक अपनाई जाएगी ?
९- shortlisted candidates said the symbols suggested were a mix of the traditional Indian script and the Roman script. इसका क्या अर्थ है- जूरी के सात सदस्य Indian National Language अन्तेर्गत सभी भाषा के जानकर थे या ट्रांसलेटर का सहारा लिया गया सभी के स्क्रिप्ट translate का प्रकासन किया जाये.
Mohan ji,is site par koi jagah banaie to dete hai apne design aur lete hain public opinion, Finance Ministry ke bharose rahe to sahi faisla hone ki umeed kum hai.
Aap sub jo bhi koi hain,ek baat to nishchit hai ki aap sabne jeetne ke liye hee apni apni entry ko Finance Ministry tak bheja tha.Aaj sirf 5 winners hamare saamne hain chahe woh kisi bhee state ke hon kisi bhee prant ke, hain to Indian hee.Hamein to etraaj hai kee baaki ke 5 winners kub batye jayenge,jaisa ki Navbharat Times ki khabar mein bataya gaya tha(वित्त मंत्रालय के सूत्रों ने बताया कि बहुत से लोगों ने रुपये का प्रतीक चिह्न बनाकर भेजा। छंटनी के बाद 2455 लोगों के डिजाइन की पहली लिस्ट बनाई गई है। इस लिस्ट में से बेस्ट सिंबल छांटने के लिए एक जूरी बनाई गई है। इस जूरी में वित्त मंत्रालय, रिजर्व बैंक ऑफ इंडिया के अलावा प्रधानमंत्री की आर्थिक सलाहकार परिषद के सदस्य भी हैं। जूरी अंतिम पसंदीदा और दस योग्यतम प्रतीक चिह्न छांटेगा। इसके बाद उन पर बहस होगी। अगर जरूरत पड़ी तो सिंबल के डिजाइन में संशोधन भी किया जाएगा।).Baaki 5 winners bhee Mumbai se hon to bhee hamen koi etraaj nahin hona chahiye(agar woh democratic tareeke se chune gaye hon to).Aakhir ek achhe symbol ki talaash bhee to hum sabka udeshshya hai.Aayeye sub mil kar Finance Ministry par yeh dabav banayen ki 2644 ke baad 10,uske baad 5 aur uske baad number 1.Sara process paardarshee ho,desh ke leading newspaper aur media bhee is topic par aage aayen to achha hoga.Aayie apni maang ko apne apne tareeke se media tak aur Finance Ministry tak pahunchayen.I am alone in Delhi.
the contest was not conducted properly. no one knows whether a fair evaluation took place.
Dear all
Pl see the news here
The long wait for a symbol of the rupee is expected to end by March next year. A committee headed by Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Usha Thorat has shortlisted five symbols from 4,000 entries for a public competition to select a design for the symbol.
The announcement of the final winner is expected in January, but a finance ministry official said the process would be over by March. “RBI has given its recommendations, but it will need the approval of the finance minister as well as the Cabinet. This may take two-three months,” he said. The official, however, said a formal launch would take time
Dec 12, 2009 at 6:09 pm
ET hindi 28 Augst 2009
विशेष संवाददाता ।। नई दिल्ली
http://hindi.economictimes.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/4944416.cms
ज्यादातर देशों की मुद्रा का अपना प्रतीक चिह्न है। मगर
भारतीय रुपये का कोई सिंबल नहीं है। रुपये को अंग्रेजी में Rs. लिख दिया जाता है। हिंदी में रुपये या रु. का इस्तेमाल होता है। लेकिन कुछ समय से सरकार रुपये का सिंबल खोजने में जुटी हुई है। सरकार चाहती है कि जैसे डॉलर या यूरो के अपने प्रतीक चिह्न हैं, उसी तरह का रुपया का भी हो।
यह सिंबल कैसा हो, इसके लिए सरकार ने बाकायदा एक प्रतियोगिता शुरू करके देशवासियों से रुपये के प्रतीक चिह्न के डिजाइन का आइडिया देने को कहा था। वित्त मंत्रालय के सूत्रों ने बताया कि बहुत से लोगों ने रुपये का प्रतीक चिह्न बनाकर भेजा। छंटनी के बाद 2455 लोगों के डिजाइन की पहली लिस्ट बनाई गई है। इस लिस्ट में से बेस्ट सिंबल छांटने के लिए एक जूरी बनाई गई है। इस जूरी में वित्त मंत्रालय, रिजर्व बैंक ऑफ इंडिया के अलावा प्रधानमंत्री की आर्थिक सलाहकार परिषद के सदस्य भी हैं। जूरी अंतिम पसंदीदा और दस योग्यतम प्रतीक चिह्न छांटेगा। इसके बाद उन पर बहस होगी। अगर जरूरत पड़ी तो सिंबल के डिजाइन में संशोधन भी किया जाएगा।
सूत्रों का कहना है कि रुपये का सिंबल का डिजाइन ऐसा होगा, जो रुपये की अवधारणा से मेल खाता हो। सरकार का मकसद है कि इस सिंबल के जरिए रुपये को अंतरराष्ट्रीय बाजार में स्थापित करना। हालांकि इस बात से भी इनकार नहीं किया जा सकता कि भारत दक्षिण-एशियाई क्षेत्र में मुक्त व्यापार लागू करने के बाद एक ही मुद्रा का प्रचलन शुरू करना चाहता है। इस मामले में रुपये का प्रतीक काफी सहायक साबित होगा। दक्षिण एशियाई क्षेत्र में भारत सबसे बड़ा व्यापारिक देश है, ऐसे में रुपये को एकल मुद्रा बनाने में आसानी होगी।
पीएचडीसीसीआई के पूर्व अध्यक्ष एल. के. मल्होत्रा का कहना है कि यह अच्छी पहल है। भारत को अगर आर्थिक रूप से महाशक्ति बनना है तो उसे अंतरराष्ट्रीय बाजार में अपनी मुद्रा का प्रचलन बढ़ाने के प्रयास करने होंगे।
Will the concerned authorities in the finance ministry display all the symbols of 2644 eligible entries with the explainations so that the whole world will know whether the final 5 entries are better than the best or cut above the rest.
I am surprised how 7 people of Jury can decide what India should use as currency symbol. This is a democratic country and we people will have to use this symbol everyday. Even if it is not possible to go in for an elaborate voting process with Indian public, they should take the help of at least say 100 to 1000 experts and professionals in arts, design, business and economy and perhaps other areas from various parts of India and get all these entries voted by them based on a SET OF CRITERIA. This way BIAS can be avoided. These experts need not be from Government organizations. They serve as volunteers in the selection process. To make matters easy this voting can happen in an online manner with all images and texts scanned. These experts should be provided online access with unique login id and password for them to access and vote. On every criteria they can give a rating of 1 to 5.
The results of the voting should be made available to Indian public anytime through this portal. Let’s propose this to Government. They should not do this selection in a non-transparent manner. We have to stop the flawed process that is going on right now immediately.
How is this idea ?
And it is better they invite fresh set of applications as well.
Yes It is a VERY GOOD SUGGESTION to invite entries once again from Indian citizens. It was not publicized properly earlier. In fact many people i came across came to know very late just before deadline. You need time to really think through all facets of India.
Economictimes was also misleading. It asked for voting and also invited symbols from ET readers. I am sure those who sent their symbols to editor of economictimes would have wasted their effort because they would not have been accepted by Finance ministry, as there can be no payment of Rs 500 and no synopsis and no biodata etc.
Only in economictimes it came out prominently. How many creative designers would be reading economictimes online version.
So, the whole thing was not managed properly. They should conduct it again considering the old entries while inviting new entries from all Indian citizens, including those who participated earlier.
people should write to Finance ministry to invite entries once more to be fair to all.
I agree with Jayesh. Government should extend the deadline now inviting fresh entries. There are many people with better ideas.
I think people should make a demand to Finance ministry to invite one more set of entries for the sake of those who could not participate within that short time.
First of all they should have given enough time for people to create a symbol. People had just one month’s time(from March 6th to Apr 15th). Also, many expert designers would have come to know(if at all) only about 2 or 3 weeks later because it was not publicised thru ads. I think they should have given atleast 3 to 6 month’s time for people to think and create. By now I am sure many more people would have come out with better ideas for the symbol. I hope they don’t do a final selection in a hurry. It is better they call for and accept one more set of entries to give an opportunity for those who could not participate within that time frame.
I hope Mr.S raut has not gone into exile and he is still attached with the finance ministry.I have some questions in my mind and i hope he will give answer to the same.
1) Sir can u tell us exactly how many entries were received by your department .There is a sharp contrast in the number given by u and the the final list of eligible participants.What were the basis on which thousands of entries were discarded.By no stretch of imagination one can digest the fact that alomost more than 22,000 entries were rejected.
2)Sir, if u remember correctly all the eligible participants were supposed to give participation certificate.as per the original plan it was somewhere in jan 2010, but with so many less entries by now everybdy should have received those.Why delay?
3)When and Where all the 7 member jury sat for the selection process and what were the parameters of the selection.Has every entry been analysed thoroughly and if yes will u take the trouble to display the marks/grade each participant has received.
4)Sir, dont u think the finance ministry is little bit confused regarding the manner in which this competition is organised . I will give u one example . your guidelines say that the entry has to be in national language script or visual representation on the other hand u have told BBC and Hindustan times that it can be also in English .
5)Sir, how come Deccan Chronicle got the news of final 5 contestants even before it was available on ur website.Why not thie news available on Economic Times, Times of India and for that matter on all the newspapers where u have given the advertisements.
6)Right from the begining there were lot of doubts regarding the authenticity of this competition and due to ur careless attitude not to give explainations regarding the vague guidelines, I am 100% sure that unfortunately some will go to the court of law and u will be solely responsible for that and spoiling a beautiful project.
7)It is very clear that u have purposely kept the whole things confused and very shrudely kept in other conditions that it will be the responsibility of the winner to defednd himself in case of any dispute. Sir, normally the condition is that the decision of the jury is final and binding . u have very cleverly avoided this clause.
8)I hope u will come out with some explaination in this regard otherwise u will have a tough time in the court of law.There is nothing personal against the top 5 but they will also agree that there is a total mess w.r.t this competition
dear aakash. you are very curect. Thank you.
aakash: do u know Mr. Rohan’s correct email ID. ? has he filed an RTI?
dear mohan, pls see fin min web recent update. it has the list of five entries which have been selected for final selection for the symbol for indian rupee. < comment moderated - removed the personal info >
Dear Rakesh, thanks for the details and the link.
Five indian rupee symbol digines selcted by the fin. min.should be publised before presentation with all juri members name.
to day relege fin min
Shri Hitesh Padmashali -bombey
Shri Shahrukh J. Irani-bombey
Shri D. Udaya Kumar-bombey
Ms. Nondita Correa-Mehrotra-bombey
Shri Shibin K.K.- kerala
Sorry, i didn’t understand your comment Rakesh. Would you mind providing more details on what those names refer to regarding this currency symbol design contest?
क्या मज़ाक है
priy mitro, top five ke list kab tak jare hogi, kya juri ke membero ka nam bataya jayega, vayapak rup sey sweekaryata ka rull kaya hoga. pl. Replly.
I sent a design symbol for indian rupee, and I sent it to Finance Ministry 8 months back. there is no reply or result about it.
Dear Sandeep, few of the readers on this blog have pointed a link to the short listed symbols. Please go through the comments to get the link.
I found this simply in other blogs and pasted it here.
How far has the Design Selection process proceeded ? Has it started even ?
Hi Somen, I have no clue on what is the progress on this. Appreciate if anyone has an update on this and willing to share the info.
The first list of India Rupee Symbol Design Competition has been published with 2455 entries. I along with Samir K.Dush, mehul hirappa, neha tulsian are there. The link to the first list is below:
http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_eco_affairs/infrastructure_div/message_symbol.htm
Hi Soumen, thanks for the update. Congratulations to all those who made it to the list.
Thanks Soumen.
What are the further updates in this regard…
And how did you come to know about it…
These results are not publicized at all by the government!!!
i have created a symbol and sent
it represents OM’which is the prime symbol of indian culture and tredition.
moreover OM’ denotes the ultimate truth. money is truth
Soumen Das, mewool
Both of you have nice designs. Like I have mentioned before, please send them to right people through right modes. Sharing links here will only fetch you user appreciation but nothing more!
Govt.of India , economic affair department ran a competetion to design a symbol for rupee like dollar have $ at its website
http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_eco_affairs/currency_coinage/Comp_Design.pdf
here is my entery to the contest..
My simplest yet worthy “peace of art” for Indian Rupee Symbol link..
http://mewool.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/my-simplest-yet-worthy-peace-of-art-for-indian-rupee-symbol/
Please refer to this link:
http://www.indiarupeesymboldesign.x10hosting.com/index.php?p=1_5_Soumen-s-India-Rupee-Symbol-Design
@Soumen Das, @mewool
Thanks for sharing your designs.. Hope you people have followed the right channels to submit them to government of India.
here is my art peace for Indian rupee symbol
http://mewool.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/my-art-peace-for-indian-rupee-symbol/
My symbol is in the link below:
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2944/inrsymbol.gif
You will find whatever, you suggested as part of it, and many more like Swastika symbol, King’s face used in ancient currencies, Ashok Chakra, Number 0, letters e.g, R,S,P,U,E,I etc. even र or रु, holy signs like sacred kalash and also the sign of stability along with its negotiation with foriegn currencies with the use of horizontal bar having two open arms facing upward & downward to keep up with market fluctuation and finally as a whole visual representation of an emperor with one sword facing upward in right hand to fight enemies and the other one in left hand facing downward to hole peace in his country but yet it is so simple!
I think it’s not at all complicated as it consists of 1 P, 1 O and 1 horizontal S. It is a three Stroke symbol, whereas $, £ are two stroke symbols and €, ¥ are of three strokes.
Even, this symbol can be written in a single stroke by starting from the downside of P , followed by the O in anti-clockwise direction and finally the horizontal S. Moreover, the pattern is so unique that ambiguity will never arise with other letters/ currencies/numbers even if written carelessly or in too hurry.
send me the email if anyone can tell me if I as NRI can submit the design. Competition announcement says ‘all Resident Indians’. NRIs play a great part in boosting our Indian economy. Why preclude them from participating.
thanks dear mohan. More inputs from others are welcome.
does that mean that if i make any design, it would be implemented to type with standard indian keyboard by some computer expert? i may be able to make the design on paper but it may not be possible for me to make it implemented on the keyboard. please enlighten in details..will it be sufficient for me to send the design on paper?
@swati mittal
All the details are mentioned in the link mentioned above in the last para of this article. Please go through it for more details.
@ms inquisitive, @jay
What it means is that a symbol you are going to come up with should be easily implementable to type with standard English keyboard. One example to quote here could be that of ‘Euro’ symbol. It was not there before. But now keyboards can produce a Euro symbol with a stroke of a couple of keys.
tell me if we have to make it on computer because i have already made it on paper. please help me.
please enlighten me too! how can it be applicable to a standard keyboard?can it be done by ASCII or by other means?
what is the meaning of “be applicable to standard keyboard”? does that mean that we can make the design only with the standard characters available in the computer keyboard? please enlighten me somebody…
can any body enlighten me if we have to make the design using only the characters available in a standard computer keyboard?
All entries must accompany by a demand draft of Rs. 500.
Such a one might have in place quite early!Offcourse, atleast now, not a bad idea! but, what it made to think of such a thing at present??? may be the Boooooming economy/World Power????
for submitting ur choice of symbol and the guidelines etc.. all may pl visit
http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_eco_affairs/currency_coinage/Comp_Design.pdf
@Srinath
Nice thought. We already have Rs as a UTF-8 symbol. Indian government is looking at coming up with a new symbol altogether since there are multiple countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan,Mauritius, Indonasia etc., using Rs as their currency symbol too. I don’t see any logic in their reasoning. Even $ symbol is being used by US, Australia, Canada etc.,
My strong feel is that we should be concentrating on strengthening the value of rupee rather than banging our head to come up with a new symbol.
@shaik jilani basha, @jilani basha
This is not the place to share your thoughts on the symbol. Please follow the guidelines as mentioned in the document on finance ministry website and send it to them please :) Appreciate your creativity though.
@Yadu
Thanks for your thoughts, makes sense.
What a joke, the Indian govt. should spend a few millions and get the symbol done and put it in front of the people to choose one or ask them to draw a few for free, instead of charging money for each entry.
I am patriotic, but have no motivation to go and take a 500 rupee DD to the finance ministry and then send in my hard work to be taken over by the govt. or just thrown in the bin if not selected.
India today or at least the media it talking of all inclusive growth but the politican’s remain in their own world especially this idiot who is wanting this symbol done. Can’t believe Chidambaram is seconding this thought though.
There are a billion people who live below the poverty line and its not that they can’t think, they have better brains than myself or even the rich in India. But they can’t get noticed because of clauses like this and money making schemes of the govt. of India. If the Indian govt. can’t help them or encourage them to show case their ideas who else will. No wonder its depression in the west and majority of Indians do not want to go back to India because of this appalling state of affairs.
Feel sorry for mother India, who can never see hope and be fair to her children.
SYMBOL: Ħ
H represents–> Hindustan—> different religious are living with I for I
= represents–> With out zero we can not image the world economy,
That zero invited by Indian. In future it will possible to forget invited thing.
Hence our symbol is must be have ZERO
R (part of Ħ ) represents–> Rupee
Like P (part of Ħ )
represents—> PAISE (our national language is hindi, hence we are call rupee by PAISE)
I represents—> India
Symbol: Θ
Where o represents —–>
With out zero we can not image the world economy,
That zero invited by Indian. In future it will possible to forget invited thing.
Hence our symbol is must be have ZERO
I represents –> India
|—| represents–> Hindustan—> different religious are living with 1 for 1
Total symbol represents —> smile face is having Hindustan people at any situation
was a nice tought actually..but now the symbol has been selected..lets respect it. have u had submiteed your entry?
there is no specific logic, Its the most common case. Everything needs an abstraction, you need nice names for projects, nice titles for publications, nice symbols for currency etc!
@Srinath
I would be more interested in knowing the logic behind your reasoning :)
@Nagaraj
Nice thoughts. However, π is a Greek letter and one of the condition in the competition is to use ‘Indian Language Script or Visual Representation’.
a pi symbol (П or п), can be Rupee symbol
As ancient Indians contributions in the field of mathematics is commandable. Hence a pi symbol is very well suited as a rupee symbol(П or п), and it sounds like rupee while pronounced too. It reminds contribution in the field of trigonometry as well.
Better late than never.. I think we need one
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