Dr. Jitendra Singh has recently launched India’s first virtual science lab for children

• Union Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh has recently launched India’s first virtual science lab for children.
• This lab will give a virtual tour of CSIR laboratories, which will connect the students with scientists from all over India and will also inform the students about the research infrastructure.

Aim of the lab

• Virtual Science Lab was inaugurated with the aim of providing quality research exposure and innovative pedagogy to the school students on the basis of an online interactive medium.
• It will immensely benefit students from government schools, Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas.

Content in labs

• In the initial phase, content will be available in English. It has been planned to be made available in Hindi as well as other regional languages.

CSIR Jigyasa Programme

• JIGYASA is a major national level initiative of CSIR, launched to widen and deepen its Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR).
• Programme also explain the culture of curiousness and scientific nature on other.
• This is a student-scientist connect programme, launched in collaboration with Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathans (KVS).
• Its primary objective is to extend classroom learning and focus on well-planned research laboratory-based learning.