JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, GURAJADA

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, GURAJADA

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering, Vizianagaram was established in the year 2007 as a constituent college of JNTU, Hyderabad. JNTU, Hyderabad was trifurcated into three universities by the Andhra Pradesh Act No. 30 of 2008 and since Augustt 24, 2008, the college has become the constituent college of JNTU, Kakinada. Through University Act No. 22 of 2021, JNTU, Kakinada is bifurcated and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Gurajada, Vizianagaram came into existence as a separate university vide Government Order Ms. No. 3 dated January 1, 2022. These are circumscribed by a border on which the name and palace of the university is inscribed. At the bottom its motto in Sanskrit ‘योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्’ (Verse 50, Chapter 2, Bhagavad Gita) meaning ‘Yoga is Skill in Action’ is written. The rose is symbolic of Jawaharlal Nehru, who wore a rose on his coat and the gear wheel symbolises interconnectedness; efficiency and precision; progress and advancement; synchronisation and timing and order and structure; engineering and technology.