Vigyan Prasar

THE Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), is making efforts to improve the teaching of Physics in schools. Physics teachers from all over the country have been invited to attend the national workshop on “Innovative Physics Teaching’ from June 8-13, 2007. Distinguished guest and director of Vigyan Prasar, VB Kamble told that making students learn science in easy. Innovative methods and triggering interest among teachers is the main objective of Vigyan Prasar.Prasar is busy with making a series of science programmes on health, astronomy, nanotechnology and science quizzes for children. Another major achievement of Vigyan Prasar is setting up of EDUSAT, a satellite dedicated for education programmes.