Varanasi : As part of the year-long “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav” celebrations, a science week is planned during 22nd and 28th February 2022 by the Government of India. The Department of Science and Technology as part of the celebrations is organizing Awareness Programs under the ‘Synergistic Training Program Utilizing Scientific and Technological Infrastructure’ (STUTI) program of the Research and Development Infrastructure Division. The program envisions hands-on-training and sensitization of the state-of-the-art equipment as well as towards sharing while ensuring transparent access of Sciene and Technology facilities. The Awareness program encompasses science popularization among school students by means of exposure and short demonstration on Research and Development equipment.
In response to the call of the Department of Science and Technology of Govt. of India, Institute of Science of Banaras Hindu University organised today one day science awareness program for school students of various schools of Varanasi. Here is name of the schools who were participating today’s programme.
1. "A.O.Muslim Inter College, Lallapura
2. Glenhill School manduadih
3. "Shri Shiv Kumar Singh Inter College, Ramna Samneghat Lanka
4. "Gopi Radha Balika Inter College, Ravindrapuri,
5. "Mount Litera Zee School Khushipur,
6. "Arya Mahila Inter Collage, Chetganj
7. "Guru Nanak Khalsa Balika Inter College, Gurubagh
8. Bengali Tola Inter Collage
9. "Udai Pratap inter College
10. "Vasant Kanya Inter Collage, Kamachha,
11. Kendriya Vidyalaya, BHU Campus
Inaugural Address given by Prof Madhoolika Agrawal, Dean, Faculty of Science, BHU
Online Address delivered by Prof Anil Tripathi, Director, Institute of Science, BHU
Prof N.V.C. Rao of Geology dept. delivered a talk on ‘Excitements of pursuing science’
A presentation on ‘Physical sciences at BHU– Glimpses of research facilities’ delivered by Prof Anchal Srivastava, Dept. of Physics
A presentation on ‘Chemical Sciences - Glimpses of research facilities at BHU’ delivered by Prof Satyen Saha, Dept. of Chemistry
A presentation on ‘Biological Sciences- Glimpses of research facilities at BHU’ delivered by Dr Prashant Singh, Dept. of Botany Student interactive session with the faculty Prof. NVC Rao, Dr Samarendra K Singh, Dr Amiya Samal, Dr Rohit Pandey, Dr Anand Singh, Dr. Prashant Singh). Students ask questions on various topics and scientists answered their queries with relevant examples. The session was very interesting.
After lunch students visited Central Discovery centre which is the hub of innovation and research at BHU. Students also visited QPCR lab of Botany Dept and Fly & Chromosome lab of Zoology Dept, at TEM and AFM lab of Physics Department, NMR and Raman lab of Chemistry Department, Museum and EPMA at Geology Department.
Students become very much motivated and inspired after getting the practical exposure of different research laboratories of science.
