he Union Minister for
Human Resource
Development,
Science & Technology
and
Ocean Development, Prof. Murli Manohar
Joshi released the new UGC logo at the
concluding function of Golden Jubilee Year
of the University Grants Commission held
on 28th December, 2003 at Vigyan Bhavan,
New Delhi.
Sixteen Institutions- colleges, departments
of Arts and Fine Arts in universities took
part in the exercise for the
designing of the new logo
for the UGC. All the
institutions
held
competitions among their
students and sent best
entries to the UGC. The
UGC received a total
370 entries. A three
member
Expert
Committee consisting of
Prof. Jeram Patel, former
Dean and Head of the
Department of Applied
Arts at the
M.S.
University, Vadodara, Dr.
Rajeev Lochan, Director
of the National Gallery of
Modern Art and Mr. Nand Katyal, former Art Director of Span magazine, who is closely associated with the Lalit Kala Akademi at Garhi, in Delhi, went through all the entries and selected five entries. Further
3-day |
workshop was organised at M.S. University, Vadodara. The five short listed designers interacted with the senior
designers and modified their designs in the
light of suggestions
and prepared
variations of the selected designs. Finally,
30 entries emerged.
A Committee
comprising Prof. V.N.
Rajasekharan
Pillai,
Prof. B. N. Tandon, Prof.
B.H. Briz-Kishore, Prof. Vasant Gadre
and Prof. (Mrs.)
Aruna Goel,
(Commission Members)
considered
the
suggestions and opinions
of other Commission
Members, officers and
staff of the UGC and
finally selected
the
design by Ms. Priya
Jayanand,
a final year
student of College of
Fine
Arts,
Thiruvanan - thapuram.
The motto line "Gyan
Vigyan
Vimuktye
(Knowledge Liberates),
was suggested by Prof.
(Mrs.) Aruna Goel. It
captures the essence of
knowledge and learning, besides reflecting the UGC's role of promoting excellence in higher education and holistic development of individuals. |
