National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) in association with Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India is conducting a science exhibition at Raman Science Centre. The exhibition was inaugurated on Tuesday. The exhibition titled “75 Years of Independence: India’s Achievements in Science and Technology”, is highlighting India’s achievements in the field of science and technology. Dr Atul Narayan Vaidya, Director, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research (CSIR-NEERI) inaugurated the exhibition on Tuesday. Manoj Kumar Panda, Project co-ordinator, Raman Science Centre Nagpur presided over the event. Students of J N Tata Parsi Girls School, Pandit Bachharaj Vyas Vidyalaya, Rajendra High School along with their teachers witnessed the event.

 

While addressing the gathering on the occasion, Dr Vaidya said, “Science is not difficult, it is in our behaviour and heritage, we have monuments of 2,000 years which have not rusted till today. Science was much practised in India but not published.” The Exhibition will be simultaneously inaugurated in 75 locations in the country, that include the main exhibition at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi and seven Science Centres under NCSM; in addition, it will also be exhibited in other Science Centres under NCSM. The exhibition takes visitor through an absorbing journey of seven and a half decades of Science and Technology in independent India, with special emphases on indigenous development and a march towards self-reliance, in a story telling mode with the help of informative visual and graphic panels.