MOTHER TERESA WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY

MOTHER TERESA WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY

Mother Teresa Women's University (MTWU) is situated at Kodaikanal, in Tamilnadu was established in the year 1984 by the enactment of Tamil Nadu Act 15 with the lofty vision of ‘Empowering Women through Education’. MTWU has its Research and Extension Centres at Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore and a Centre for Women’s Studies at Pallapatti for promoting women entrepreneurship and has 12 affiliated women’s colleges. The emblem of the university is the shape of a stadium houses an abstract image of Mother Teressa forming the pole of a two-pan beam balance with one pan carrying a woman and the other a man with mortarboard hats symbolising equality in education, justice in opportunities and growth of women equal to men. This motif is crested by a traditional lamp, surmounted by its motto ‘Towards Equal Status’ and supported by its motto in Tamil ‘சரி நிகர் சமானம்'. These are ensconced by a blue border, which is inscribed by its name in Tamil and English. The lamp symbolises light, illumination, awakening, devotion, purity, guidance, protection, hope and prosperity and the beam balance scale is the traditional symbol of justice as wielded by statues of Lady Justice and the supporting hands signify the support for justice, healing and life.