The Ministry of Science and Technology has announced that the Indian Association of Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata has recently organized the Vigyan Yatra, the promotional activity of the India International Science Festival.
The sixth edition of the India International Science Festival (IISF) will be conducted from December 22 to 25, 2020 on a virtual platform due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ministry flagged off Mobile Science Exhibition vans from the cities across the country under the Vigyan Yatra with an aim to promote scientific temper and inculcate the culture of science among the masses. The ministry further added that the programme helps in igniting the minds of the youngsters because science exhibition mobile vans are viewed by all the local schools and university students which create interest in science and generate awareness about the IISF.
30 locations across the country have been identified across the country where the yatra will be conducted. Science communicators, inventors, teachers, students as research scholars will be felicitated during the science festival.
IACS Kolkata conducted the Vigyan Yatra online. The programme was inaugurated by Director IACS, Santanu Bhattacharya. The Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research Dhanbad also conducted the Vigyan Yatra on Youtube under the east segment.
Other dignitaries at the function
Others who participated at the inauguration include National Secretary Vijnana Bharati - Pavn Ramdas, Professor Amitav Patra - director INST, professor Y Sudhakar Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Professor Patra Pratim Chakrabarti IIT Kharagpur, Anudeeoa Ghose, Senior Research Fellow IACS, Monalisa Chowdhury senior Research Fellow, IACS, and Ivy Ghosh Senior Research Fellow IACS.
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