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CSIR expo concludes
Nearly 40,000 students from more than 250 schools in the twin cities and neighbouring districts visited the CSIR Platinum Jubilee Science Exhibition, apart from farmers, NGOs and general public during the last six days. The valedictory of the exhibition was held at IICT School on Wednesday as a precursory event for IISF-2017 - Chennai to be held from October 13 to 16.
Hyderabad: Nearly 40,000 students from more than 250 schools in the twin cities and neighbouring districts visited the CSIR Platinum Jubilee Science Exhibition, apart from farmers, NGOs and general public during the last six days. The valedictory of the exhibition was held at IICT School on Wednesday as a precursory event for IISF-2017 - Chennai to be held from October 13 to 16.
Dr B Somaraju, chairman, Care Hospitals, was the chief guest at the valedictory. Prof Arun Tiwari, author-scientist, Care Hospitals, and Dr C Parthasarathi, Principal Secretary, Agriculture, and G Krishnaveni, Joint Secretary, Environment, were the guests of honour.
Directors of IICT, CCMB and NGRI Dr S Chandrasekhar, Dr Rakesh Mishra and Dr V M Tiwari praised the government’s efforts to improve the basic needs as well as lifestyles of citizens. They urged students to uphold scientific pursuit and contribute to innovations for betterment of the country.
About 10,000 books on earth, earthquakes and essentials of safety in Hindi, English and other languages were distributed to the students and other visitors, who interacted with various scientific personnel of the three CSIR. The stalls displayed the CSIR’s efforts towards societal interventions such as waste to energy generation and bio-villages with aromatic plants for effective wealth generation for poor villagers.
