On the fifth day of ongoing 35th India International Trade Fair (IITF), school students and researchers from various States thronged the Science and Technology pavilion. Stalls of Palaeobotany and Narcotics Control of Bureau (NCB) were hit among the students.
Dr Vishwajit Thakur, a scientist from Birbal Shani Institute of Palaeobotany in lucknow, told The Pioneer that everyday around hundred people of all ages are visiting their stall. “We are projecting the unusual categories of Stromatolites...by which one can predict the age of earth as well different species on earth,” Thakur said.
“Researchers, students, exhibitors and scientists take halt here and they find it very interesting because they sop up the knowledge which is beyond the text book,” he said further.
While elucidating about the fossils to the visitors in the pavilion, Dr Veerukant Singh explained that Stromatolites are the oldest organic fossils which have been persisting since the no-oxygen age. “Despite being 1.7 billion year old fossils, they give the evidence of 800 million years old different species on earth,” said Singh.
“It is a knowledge exchange session. Apart from trading and business significance here, we come to know about the level of curiosity about Earth fossils among the knowledge seekers. People are keen to know about how oxygen gas came to existence and the fruitions of plants,” he said.
Moving in the interiors of science and technology pavilion, representatives of NCB informed the students about the adverse effect of drugs.