Uttarakhand's School Curriculum To Include ISRO's Chandrayaan Missions: Minister

ISRO's Chandrayaan missions will be included in the state's school syllabus.

Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the lunar south pole on August 23, 2023.

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Dehradun: ISRO's Chandrayaan missions will be included in the state's school syllabus, said Uttarakhand's Higher Education Minister, Dhan Singh Rawat. ISRO’s lunar missions -- Chandrayaan-1, Chandrayaan-2 and Chandrayaan-3 -- will be included in the school curriculum, as reported by PTI.

"Chandrayaan-3 mission has made the world realise the talent of India's scientists. We have decided to introduce the ISRO's Chandrayaan missions in the school curriculum from class 6-12 to inculcate a scientific temper among our students," Rawat said.

Chandrayaan-3, India's Moon mission, successfully landed on the lunar south pole on August 23, 2023.

Rawat shared plans to revamp 20 government colleges in Uttarakhand by providing them with new infrastructure and transforming them into research-oriented model colleges in alignment with the National Education Policy 2020. Additionally, new PG blocks will be established for Arts and Science faculties in six selected government colleges as part of this initiative.

The state government has allocated over Rs 159 crore for infrastructure development in the chosen colleges. Out of this amount, Rs 129 crore will be dedicated to the reconstruction and enhancement of 20 selected government colleges to transform them into research-based model colleges.

Meanwhile, Rs 30 crore will be spent for creating new PG blocks for Arts and Science faculties in six government colleges, Rawat said The colleges to be developed as research-based model colleges include postgraduate colleges in Rudrapur, Kashipur, Champawat, Bageshwar, Pithoragarh and Haldwani, he said.

These colleges will have modern IT facilities apart from women's and men's hostels, labs and e-learning rooms, the minister said.

The six govt PG colleges where PG blocks for science and arts faculties are to be constructed are Government Post Graduate Colleges in Syalde, Berinag, Kapkot, Tanakpur, Thatyud and Someshwar, he said.