Significance

• The bottom of the emblem displays a loaded freight-liner or a cargo-vessel the 'barge'. It signifies that industry, trade and commerce form the basic foundation of the world economy. The entire edifice of the economic world rests upon this foundation.
• The tree with four leaves shown in the middle is the symbolic tree of knowledge. Its leaves and twigs symbolize the different departments of knowledge.
• The globular design displayed at the top is the world. Significantly, it rests on the tree of knowledge.
• The short Sanskrit maxim across the middle reads 'Bidyaya Bimuchyate' (Knowledge Liberates).
• The source of all knowledge, active or latent, is the world, whether it is Commerce, Arts or Science - all knowledge liberates man from the bondage of ignorance and illusions. Armed with knowledge and learning man can wage war against the dark forces of ignorance, superstitions and social evils and thus help himself to climb up the rungs of the ladder of material prosperity and spiritual well-being.