BioVoice News March 2017 Issue 10 Volume 1 | Page 63

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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