UNIVERSITY OF GOUR BANGA

UNIVERSITY OF GOUR BANGA

The University of Gour Banga is a state aided university, which was established under the West Bengal Act XXVI of 2007 on February 19, 2008. The circular violet coloured emblem of the university has an open book in the centre circle of a square, whose corners have been treated as pentagons holding the glowing rays and supported by four pens forming the diagonals of a square  All these elements have been surrounded by thick borders and ensconced by a border with border lines bears the name of the university, a pair of twigs of leaves and its motto in Sanskrit ‘चरैवेति’ (Section 3, Chapter 3, Aitareya Brahmana) meaning ‘Keep Going, Keep Going’. The twigs of leaves denote hope, renewal, revival and growth; pen signifies communication, creativity, power, knowledge, thought and written word; open book means knowledge and wisdom and pentagons signifies balance, harmony and equilibrium of five elements of nature.