PM to open Science Congress in Bengaluru on Friday

Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will open the seven-day Indian Science Congress (107 ISC) on January 3 in Bengaluru. The event will be held at GKVK campus on Ballari Road.
The focal theme of the Congress is “Science and Technology: Rural Development," according to S Rajendra Prasad, Vice Chancellor at University of Agricultural Science (UAS), Bangalore and KS Rangappa, General President, Indian Science Congress Association, who briefed the media. They expect about 15,000 people including Nobel laureates, scientists,intellectuals, academicians, police makers, researchers, students and delegates to attend the event.

The entry for the science exhibition will be free to science enthusiasts from January4 to January 7.

Lectures and discussions on more than 14 different contemporary Science areas will be the highlight in the conference. The other important events of the Science Congress are "Women Science Congress”, “Children Science Congress” and “Science Communicators Meet”. For the first time, there will be a session on “Farmer’s Science Congress”. There will also be a science exhibition called 'Pride of India' wherein different technologies, machineries, equipments, science models, etc., will be exhibited.

To provide complete details of 107 Indian Science Congress, the University has developed a mobile app “ISC 2020 UASB”. It contains end to end information,like lectures, venues, navigation to the conference halls, accommodation, transportation,Food courts, and emergency services. It also facilitates the participants of the conference to plan for their holidays in and around tourist places of Bangalore.