Director General of the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) G.S. Rautela said that the Sub-Regional District Science Centre in Kalaburagi has been sanctioned an Innovation Hub, providing the much needed avenue and hands-on experience for budding scientists to turn their dreams into realities.
Addressing a press conference in Kalaburagi on Saturday, Mr. Rautela said that the proposed Rs. 1.5 crore Innovation Hub would have a idea lab in which students can use different kinds of tools, a separate section for ‘Break and Remake’ where the old machinery would be dismantled and fabricated again by the student.
He said that the hub would also have an idea box where the children can drop in their innovative ideas.
At the end of every month the idea box would be opened and the selected innovative idea would be funded by the NCSM for the student to take up.
To a question, Mr. Rautela said that the NCSM was favourably inclined to upgrade the Sub-Regional District Science Centre in Kalaburagi as a Regional Centre, but the lack of additional space was the only major constraint. For establishing a regional centre, the NCSM should have at least 8 acres of land and the Kalaburagi centre has only three acres of land. He said that the NCSM has established a Regional Centre at Mysore now and there was a proposal to establish another at Tumkuru, which would be fully funded by the State government.Mathematics Gallery
Speaking at the inauguration of the newly added Mathematics Gallery in the Science Centre in Kalaburagi , Mr. Rautela said that the gallery is established in an area of 130 square meters unfolding mathematical concepts in an easy-to-understand manner. Mathematician and Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences R. Balasubramanian inaugurated the gallery.
