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BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY Banaras Hindu University is an internationally reputed temple of learning, situated in the holy city of Varanasi. This creative and innovative university was founded by the great nationalist leader, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, in 1916 with cooperation of great personalities like Dr Annie Besant, who viewed it as the University of India. Banaras Hindu University was created under the Parliamentary legislation - B.H.U. Act 1915. The BHU emblem - Saraswati playing Veena on Hansa and Kamal, encircled in Omkara, confers Amritam- immortality through Vidya - Is a work of art be speaking in the eloquent language of Hindu symbolism the educational and cultural ideals of the university. Saraswati is the Goddess of learning, wisdom and knowledge. Her Vedic name was also Bharati. Form – White. She represents par excellence the ideals of Indian culture, all that is vest in her philosophy, religion, life and art. She is the Shakti, the propelling energy of Bramh

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY) VARANASI The Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) (IIT(BHU) Varanasi owes its existence to Bharat Ratna Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, the founder of the first residential University of modern India, Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Engineering education in BHU started in 1919 with the establishment of Banaras Engineering College (BENCO). The next stage of development saw the establishment of College of Technology (TECHNO) and College of Mining & Metallurgy (MINMET). In 1968, the erstwhile engineering colleges of BHU, namely BENCO, MINMET, and TECHNO, were merged to form the Institute of Technology (IT-BHU). IT-BHU had been admitting students through the JEE conducted by the IITs since 1972. IT-BHU became IIT (BHU) Varanasi on June 29, 2012, by an Act of Parliament. Its circular gear shaped logo in violet colour has a shield in the middle, which has a globe with a revolving pl