Ministers jointly flagged off the 9th phase of Science Express Climate Action Special( SECAS) from Safderjung Railway Station here today.
The SECAS II will run from February 17 to September 8, 2017, culminating its journey at Gandhinagar. During its journey, the Science Express will cover over 19, 000 km, and will be exhibited at 68 stations across 20 states of the country. During this seven month journey, SECAS will roll into Tripura for the first time.
Science Express, redesigned as SECAS, intends to contribute towards increasing understanding of the science of climate change, the observed and anticipated impacts, and different possible responses. It is an innovative mobile science exhibition mounted on a 16 coach AC train, which has been custom-built for Department of Science & Technology( DST) by Indian Railways. This unique mobile exhibition was first launched in October 2007 by DST. Since then it has travelled across India eight times, traveling about 1, 42, 000 km and exhibiting at 455 locations. More
than 1.50 crore people visited the exhibition over 1, 602 exhibition days. Science Express has become the largest, the longest running and the most visited mobile science exhibition. It has six entries in the Limca Book of Records.
“ Fish production can be boosted by farmer friendly technologies”
Mr Sudarshan Bhagat, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare inaugurated the Recirculating Aquaculture System( ARS) at the Vizhinjam Research Centre of ICAR-Central
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