For RTI, by NID

[Atul Patankar 536]

As reported at governancenow.com on MAY 10 2010

 

The right to information (RTI) act is all set to get a visual identity.

The ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions, nodal agency for the transparency acy, has asked Ahmedabad based National Institute of Design (NID) to design a logo for the RTI act.

 

The government will use the logo, expected to be ready by October this year, in various programs to create awearenes about the act. It will also be displayed outside all offices of all the public information officers of vatious government departments.

 

Tarun Deep Girdher, head of the graphics department at NID, is working woth his team to design the logo.

 

As per a news item Ahmebadad Mirror, a Gujarat base daily, Girdher was assigned the project in 2009 end.

 

“The logo has to be simple and direct, not only in terms of visual composition, but also reproduction. It should be uncomplicated enough to be replicated by a roadside painter on the wall,” Ahmedabad Mirrior quoteed Girdhar as saying.

 

Source: GovernanceNow.com | For RTI, by NID