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MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHOPAL Maulana Azad College of Technology (MACT) started functioning in 1960 at Government S.V. Polytechnic with an intake of 120 students and seven faculty members. The Institute is named after the renowned educationist and scholar, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, former Union Education Minister of India. Its emblem in yellow, blue and red colours has three eccentric circles all touching at the bottom has the Great Stupa of Sanchi with its entrance as motif. This is surrounded by a gear wheel and its name in English. All these are ensconced by another circle with its name in Hindi supported by a pair of laurels. Its motto ‘विद्या परं भूषणम्’ meaning ‘Knowledge is the Supreme Ornament’ is written on the the pedestal holding all these.

MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies  (MAKAIAS) was set up at the joint initiative of the Government of India, Department of culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development  and the Government of West Bengal . Registered as a Society under the West Bengal Registration of Societies' Act of 1961, with Prof. Nurul Hasan, the then Governor of West Bengal, as the President of the Society on the 4th of January 1993. It is funded by the Department of culture, Government of India. Presently, the Governor of West Bengal, is the President of the Society. An acre of land in Bidhannagar (Salt Lake City), Kolkata, was allotted to the Institute by the Government of West Bengal for building the Institutes campus. Its circular emblem has an eight petalled lotus in the centre with a background of the rays of sun. This is encircled by its name written in reverse lettering in a black border. http://makaias.