PB Acharya inaugurates children’s science congress

Our Correspondent
Imphal, March 17 (EMN): The Nagaland Governor PB Acharya inaugurated children’s science congress during the ongoing 105th edition of the Indian science congress at Manipur university campus at Canchipur, 5 km south of Imphal town on March 17 Saturday.
The children’s science congress popularly known as Rashtriya Kishore VaigyanikSammelan is organised every year along with Indian science congress. It is a unique opportunity for the young students in the age group of 10-17 years from all over the country, to improve the scientific treatment.
In his speech the Nagaland governor said that knowledge should be used to help the society find solutions and to progress while appealing the scientists to empower the society and reach out to the unreached”.
‘We should not become a job seeker instead we should become a job giver. We require more entrepreneurs. India has 125 crore population and 65% of it is young people. These young people are our future’, said Acharya.
‘We are an integrated country and we have come to the northeast but many of us may not know the eight states of northeast,’ said the Nagaland governor.
He coined the term “NAMASTE” appropriately with the names of the Northeastern states where N stands for Nagaland, A for Arunachal Pradesh, M for Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, A for Assam, S for Sikkim, T for Tripura and E for East.
Calling for initiatives to everyone, he said every MPs, MLAs, doctors, scientists and universities should adopt a village. Manipur has a good opportunity for business since the state has international border at Moreh. ‘Ima keithel’ is the only market where more than 2000 women run daily business which we cannot find nowhere in the world, he said.
Vice-Chancellor, Manipur University Prof. Adya Prasad Pandey said that the focal theme of the congress would help participants think in terms of applying science to societal needs and problems. AK Saxena, President, Indian Science congress association and other functionaries also attended the inaugural function.
Soon after the formal inauguration, poster painting competition, science model competition for the state (schools) students, model demonstration for non-competitors were organised at the MIT block of the Manipur University.
Altogether 150 students various local schools participated in the poster painting competition held under the theme ‘solid waste management,’ while around 40 students displayed and demonstrated their scientific models for the state level competition section for the congress.
On the other hand 32 students including 29 from Telangana displayed their models in the non-competition section. Besides 16 selected students under the directorate of science and technology from across the country demonstrated their model (projects) developed and designed for a better life.
The competition of model and projects will continue till March 18 and those who bagged the first three positions will be given cash prizes as well citations, according to Prof N Mohilal of Manipur University’s life science department who is the convenor in charge of the programme .