Regional Science Centre, Bhubaneswar is one of the constituent units of National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Ministry of culture, Govt. of India. The main objective of the council is to popularise science among the people at large and students in particular. The council achieves the objectives through its Mobile Science Exhibitions, Science Demonstrations, S&T based galleries, Training and Workshops, etc.

World Nature Conservation Day is celebrated on 28th July with an objective to raise awareness to preserve the environment. Overexploitation of natural resources and increased human intervention leads to ecological imbalance results in severe floods, global warming, drought, landslide etc. In order to sensitize and create interest to have a habitable planet, Regional Science Centre, Bhubaneswar organised a slew of interesting programmes i.e. An Interactive talk on “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet”, by Sh. Ajay Jena, IFS, Conservator of Forest (Retd.), Govt. of Odisha, and a creative contest ‘Plant Pot painting’ was also organized where students from various schools took part and show their artistic skill imbibed with nature. The event commenced with a welcome note by Sh. Kapil Jain, Project Coordinator, Regional Science Centre Bhubaneswar. This was followed by an interactive talk by Mrs. Devi Gayatri , Chairman of “GROW with Nature”, an NGO for conservation of nature and wildlife at the grass root level. 

More than 100 participants took active part in the programmes.

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