File:Kolkata Municipal Corporation new emblem.png

Original file (276 × 362 pixels, file size: 13 KB, MIME type: image/png)

This file is from a shared repository and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below.

Summary

DescriptionKolkata Municipal Corporation new emblem.png
English: It has:
  • on the top , the words "Purosree Bibardhan" inscribed in old Bengali script.
  • below are the words "Kolkata Paurosangstha" inscribed in Bengali script.
  • at the bottom is the figure of an old Mayurpankshi Boat on three wavy lines depicting the naval trade of southern Bengal of by-gone days in general and of the Region in particular, both ancient and modern.
  • four pockets in four corners: on the top left is a flat eight-petalled lotus symbolising beauty and culture.
  • on the top right is a wheel with eight spokes, symbolising Industry and Progress.
  • at the bottom left there is a swastika symbolising all-round prosperity.
  • at the bottom right there is a double thunderbolt symbolising Force, High Ideals and Electrical Power.
  • the two side panels have a stalk of rice representing food supply. Below each rice stalk there is a fish, an auspicious sign.
  • in the centre there is a Hand of Fire denoting purity and high ideals in the hands of the body politic. It also stands for removal of diseases, filth and tardiness.
Date
Source https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/Emblem.jsp
Author Kolkata Municipal Corporation

Licensing

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in India because its term of copyright has expired or it is ineligible for copyright.

The Indian Copyright Act applies in India to works first published in India. According to the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, as amended up to Act No. 27 of 2012 (Chapter V, Section 25):

  • Anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic works, sound recordings, government works, and works of corporate authorship or of international organizations enter the public domain 60 years after the date on which they were first published, counted from the beginning of the following calendar year (i.e. as of 2026, works published prior to 1 January 1966 are considered public domain).
  • Posthumous works (other than those above) enter the public domain after 60 years from publication date, counted from the beginning of the following calendar year.
  • Any kind of work other than the above enters the public domain 60 years after the author's death (or in the case of a multi-author work, the death of the last surviving author), counted from the beginning of the following calendar year.
  • Text of laws, judicial opinions, and other government reports are free from copyright.
The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 is not retroactive, so any work in which copyright did not subsist when it commenced did not have its copyright restored, and is in the public domain per the Copyright Act 1911.
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
 Note that this work might not be in the public domain in countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term and have copyright terms longer than life of the author plus 60 years. In particular, Mexico is 100 years, Jamaica is 95 years, Colombia is 80 years, Guatemala and Samoa are 75 years, and Switzerland and the United States are 70 years.

العربية ∙ বাংলা ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ français ∙ हिन्दी ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ ಕನ್ನಡ ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ मराठी ∙ Nederlands ∙ português do Brasil ∙ sicilianu ∙ தமிழ் ∙ ತುಳು ∙ తెలుగు ∙ اردو ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

Nazi symbol
Nazi symbol
 Legal disclaimer
This image shows (or resembles) a symbol that was used by the National Socialist (NSDAP/Nazi) government of Germany or an organization closely associated to it, or another party which has been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

The use of insignia of organizations that have been banned in Germany (like the Nazi swastika or the arrow cross) may also be illegal in Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and other countries, depending on context. In Germany, the applicable law is paragraph 86a of the criminal code (StGB), in Poland – Art. 256 of the criminal code (Dz.U. 1997 nr 88 poz. 553).

Captions

Coat of arms of Kolkata

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current21:17, 5 September 2021Thumbnail for version as of 21:17, 5 September 2021276 × 362 (13 KB)smartcommons>BodhisattwaUploaded a work by Kolkata Municipal Corporation from https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/Emblem.jsp with UploadWizard

The following 2 pages use this file:

Retrieved from "https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/File:Kolkata_Municipal_Corporation_new_emblem.png"