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New Delhi : Chairman, Lokpal, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, launched the logo of Lokpal at an event held here on November 26, 2019.
The Members of Lokpal: Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale (Judicial Member), Justice Pradeep Kumar Mohanty (Judicial Member), Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi (Judicial Member), Dinesh Kumar Jain (Non-Judicial Member), Archana Ramasundaram (Non-Judicial Member), Mahender Singh (Non-Judicial Member), Dr Inderjeet Prasad Gautam (Non-Judicial Member), Secretary, Lokpal, B. K. Agarwal, CEO, Mygov Portal Abhishek Singh, and Joint Secretary Lokpal Dilip Kumar were present on the occasion. The motto of Lokpal “मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम् was also adopted on the day.
An open competition was conducted on Mygov portal i.e. the website mygov.in, as well as through the Lokpal registry mail, to invite entries for Logo and Motto/Slogan for using the same as Logo and Motto/Slogan of Lokpal in stationary, backdrop, for IEC and any other way that the Lokpal deem fit. Accordingly, the same was made open for competition amongst all public (individuals/organizations) to submit their Logo latest by June 13, 2019, at 2345 hours.
Altogether 2,236 entries were received for Logo and 4,705 entries for Motto/Slogan through Mygov portal from people of varied age groups and from different parts of the country. On three stage selection process, the Logo design of Prashant Mishra, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, has been selected for adoption as Logo of Lokpal, according to a PIB release.
The logo of Lokpal is based on the literal meaning of LOKPAL, LOK – meaning people and PAL – meaning caretaker, i.e. “caretaker of people”. The logo symbolises how LOKPAL protects and cares for the people of India by establishing justice as per law. The logo symbolises various essence of LOKPAL figuratively in shapes such as: ombudsman (judges bench), people (three human figures), vigilance (Ashok chakra forming eye–pupil), law (shape of book in orange) and judicial (the tricolour two hands are placed below forming a unique balance). The logo is in tricolour representing the national essence of LOKPAL.
However, none of the motto received through portal was found suitable. The Lokpal decided on its Motto/Slogan at its full bench meeting based on their own inputs and discussion on October17, 2019.The Bench unanimously decided to take one portion of the above 1st sloka of ‘Ishabasoupanishad’.