Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
PM Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates 106th edition of Indian Science Congress 2019 at the Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, Punjab today.

This year, the theme of the Indian Science Congress 2019 was ‘Future India- Science and Technology’. The Congress will be hosted by Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar from January 3 to January 7.

After attending the Congress, the Prime Minister will head towards Gurdaspur to attend a public meeting.

The students along with the faculty of the university constructed a driverless solar-powered bus, which PM Modi is likely to take a ride in. The bus was built by 300 engineering students from Mechanical, Electrical, and IT Department in the time span of 1 year.

Few of the features of the bus include:

  • Around 10-30 people can board the bus at one time and it can run up to 70 km
  • The bus costs around Rs 6 lakh and has a maximum speed of 30 km per hour
  • The bus uses GPS and Bluetooth for navigation and could be controlled within a radius of 10 meters
  • The bus is slated to enter into commercial service later this year
  • The bus is completely pollution free and uses only renewable energy in the form of electric motor and solar power for propulsion
  • The technology works by using wireless signals detected through ultra-sonic and infra-red sensors
  • This bus is suitable for use at airports

During the five days long ISC, there will be hundreds of scientific and technological oriented conferences and events will take place. where scientists, senior officials from DRDO, ISRO, Department of Science and Technology, AIIMS, UGC, AICTE, and many elite universities of the US, UK, India and other countries will participate.

Union Cabinet ministers, including Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan and Textile Minister Smriti Irani, will also attend the event.

“The government’s aim is to deliver the benefits of science and technology to the last man in the society. Scientists being a pivot should put their heart and soul into finding new solutions to the problems facing the nation and improve the quality of life of common man,” Vardhan said in his message.

The participating Nobel laureates include biochemist Thomas Sudoph, who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on vesicle trafficking, Nobel laureate in Chemistry Avram Hershko and, and Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane who was awarded 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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