Karnataka plans wider rollout of telescope scheme to govt schools | India News – The Times of India
BENGALURU: Karnataka is getting ready to increase its Telescope Distribution Scheme past Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society (KRIES) schools to a bigger group of govt establishments, science and know-how minister NS Boseraju mentioned Thursday. A proposal in search of extra funds shall be positioned earlier than the chief minister throughout the subsequent finances assembly.Boseraju was talking on the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, the place he inaugurated a coaching programme for KRIES lecturers on working and sustaining the telescopes equipped to their schools. The effort is a component of a broader push to strengthen astronomy-primarily based studying throughout the State.Under the scheme, 833 residential schools and PU schools beneath KRIES have every obtained a telescope at a complete price of Rs 3 crore. Boseraju mentioned no different authorities division within the nation had taken up a venture of this scale. He added that the division hopes to prolong telescope distribution to extra schools within the coming 12 months.
He confused the necessity to foster scientific mood and rational considering amongst college students. Strengthening science training, he mentioned, is crucial in an period pushed by information and innovation.Training is a key half of the programme. The minister mentioned the govt’s intention was not to distribute the devices and step away, however to guarantee lecturers are geared up to use them in lecture rooms. The palms-on workshop goals to assist lecturers combine common sky observations into college actions, encouraging college students to discover astronomy.The division’s 2026 astronomical calendar was additionally launched on the occasion. The calendar lists month-to-month celestial occasions and is supposed to help lecturers in utilizing the telescopes extra successfully. Senior officers from the division and the planetarium joined round 90 KRIES lecturers on the occasion.
