Indian rupee

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The Indian rupee is the official monetary unit of India, issued and regulated by the Reserve Bank of India and widely used in the country’s domestic and international economic transactions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fiat currency
national currency
banknoteDenomination ₹10
₹100
₹2 (largely discontinued in circulation)
₹20
₹200
₹2000 (withdrawn from circulation as legal tender in stages)
₹5
₹50
₹500
centralBank Reserve Bank of India
coinDenomination 50 paise (rare in circulation)
₹1
₹10
₹2
₹5
country India
currencySymbol
currentBanknoteSeries Mahatma Gandhi New Series
governingAct Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
inflationTarget 4%
inflationTargetBand 2% to 6%
ISO4217Code Indian rupee self-linksurface differs
surface form: INR
issuer Reserve Bank of India
languageOnBanknotes English
Hindi
languagePanelCount 15 Indian languages on language panel
legalTenderIn India
some Indian union territories
some Indian-administered regions
monetaryAuthority Reserve Bank of India
monetaryPolicyCommittee Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India
monetaryPolicyFramework inflation targeting
monetarySystem decimal
officialCurrencyOf India
peggedTo not formally pegged; managed float regime
previousBanknoteSeries Mahatma Gandhi New Series
surface form: Mahatma Gandhi Series
regulator Reserve Bank of India
replacedCurrency Indian rupee self-linksurface differs
surface form: Indian rupee of British India (pre-independence system)
scriptOnBanknotes Devanagari script
surface form: Devanagari
subunit paise
subunitToUnit 100 paise = 1 rupee
symbolAdoptionYear 2010
symbolDesigner D. Udaya Kumar
usedFor domestic transactions in India
international economic transactions involving India
usedIn Indian banking system
Indian government budgeting
Indian stock markets
Indian tax payments

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