Guwahati, (USTM), June 24: As the two-day National science workshop is all set to begin from tomorrow at University of Science & Technology Meghalaya, and more than 100 nationally and internationally acclaimed scientists from all over India have reached here today for participation. This Group Monitoring Workshop for Inspire Internship Science Coordinators is being organized by USTM for DST.
The Workshop is being held in the north-eastern region for the first time by Department of Science and Technology (DST), under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. In a bid to attract and encourage school students to develop scientific temperament under its nationally acclaimed flagship programme “INSPIRE Internship Science Camp”, the DST has been holding camps in institutions across India since 2008.
Mahbubul Hoque, Chancellor of USTM, has expressed his gratefulness to DST for choosing the north-eastern region for the first time to hold this national congregation and specially thanked for selecting USTM considering its performance and contribution in the field of science and technology.
The basic objective of INSPIRE is to communicate to the youth population of the country the excitements of creative pursuit of science and attract talent to the study of science at an early stage and build the required critical human resource pool for strengthening and expanding the Science & Technology system and Research & Development base. Launched in December 2008, the INSPIRE Scheme includes three programs and five components.