About the AUD/INR rate
The AUD/INR rate is how many INR one Australian dollar buys. It moves constantly with interest-rate expectations, commodity prices and global risk sentiment - see what moves the rate. Tradergy shows the mid-market reference rate and does not forecast where it’s heading. For the 52-week highs and lows and a daily table, see the AUD/INR rate history.
Reading the same rate from the other side: the reverse rate, INR → AUD, is on the receiving Indian rupee view, and sending Australian dollars to India is covered on the AUD → INR transfer page. Every AUD pair sits on the convert hub, and to work in more than one currency at once there is the currency converter.
Reading a rupee figure, and moving rupees
Start with how the numbers are written. The Reserve Bank of India states that residents may remit up to "USD 2,50,000 per financial year" under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme. That is two hundred and fifty thousand, set out in the Indian digit grouping, which places a separator after the first three digits and then after every two. It is the written form of the lakh, one hundred thousand, and the crore, ten million, and an Indian document will often use those words in place of the digits entirely.
Convertibility then runs in two directions independently. Rupees may be bought and sold freely for trade and for most ordinary payments. Movements of capital are governed separately, and the Liberalised Remittance Scheme is the instrument: a resident individual, minors included, may send up to that annual figure abroad in a financial year running April to March, for a defined list of purposes. Some uses are barred outright, among them lottery tickets, trading in foreign exchange, and margin calls to overseas exchanges.
The notes are restricted at the border, which is the reason the rupee is almost never sold as travel cash in Australia. Under the Foreign Exchange Management (Export and import of currency) Regulations, a person resident in India may take out no more than Rs. 25,000 in notes, and a visitor who is not a citizen of Pakistan or Bangladesh may bring in or take out no more than the same amount. Nepal and Bhutan sit under a separate rule with its own denomination limits.
The practical upshot is that rupees are obtained in India. Money crossing this corridor arrives as a transfer into an Indian account, not as cash in a case, and the paperwork that decides how quickly it clears sits at the Indian end.
Sources: Reserve Bank of India, FAQs on the Liberalised Remittance Scheme · Foreign Exchange Management (Export and import of currency) Regulations, 2015