
VADODARA, Feb 15: Students of the M S University will now not be the only proud possessors of the MSU T-shirts, designed by students of the Faculty of Home Science and Fine Arts as part of the Know Your University8217; programme. Now, even those not associated with the university can own these T-shirts, as the university has decided to sell the designs to a city-based company for mass production in return of a royalty.
The university has also given the copyright to the factory owner to use the university8217;s golden jubilee logo and sell it according to its demand.
Talking to Express Newsline, M S University Vice-Chancellor Anil Kane said tenders were floated and the company that quoted the highest price was given the contract for mass production of the T-shirts.
Kane said the university did not have the funds nor the kind of machinery to manufacture these T-shirts on a large scale.
8220;Once the designs are sold to the company, it is not upto the university to bother how they were used8221;, the vice-chancellor said, adding, however that the company expected a good response because of the deep associations the university had with a large number of people.
All the T-shirts have the common logo of We amp; U/MSU8217; imprinted on the university8217;s domes, while the designs in the front vary from the routes of the various faculties to waves of the sea.
Kane said everybody8217;s efforts had been recognised, as the students who had designed the T-shirts had been introduced to several industrialists and the T-shirts displayed through a fashion show.