Science Fair for Underprivileged Students is being organised by Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Kolkata. The fair will be held on November 13-14, 2024.
Established on 2nd May 1959 under the administrative control of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Birla Industrial & Technological Museum (BITM) in Kolkata is widely regarded as the mother of science museum movement in India.
The idea behind this pioneering initiative came from Dr. B C Roy, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal who after visiting the Deutsches Museum in Munich was inspired to create a similar institution in India for public engagement with science & technology. His vision and efforts in this regard found instant support and patronage from the likes of Pandit Jawharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India, and industrialist Shri G D Birla. The latter donated the Birla Park, his sprawling bungalow and the adjoining plot of land in the upscale Ballygunge area of Calcutta, to CSIR for setting up an Industrial and Technological Museum. Pandit Nehru received this magnanimous gift from Shri G D Birla in 1956.
Starting with the taking over of the Birla Park in 1956 by the Govt. of India to the Museum’s inauguration in 1959, the journey was quite eventful and challenging. Careful planning and painstaking efforts by the museum’s planning committee that was headed by Dr. B C Roy himself and included a host of renowned scientists, educationists and industrialists ultimately resulted in the formation of India’s first science museum under the ambit of the central government.
Science Fair 2024 for Underprivileged Students is being organised by Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Kolkata. The fair will be held on November 13-14, 2024.
Science and Technology for Society.
Students studying up to Class XII and belonging to the underprivileged section of society.
Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Kolkata.
