The State Government has sanctioned Rs 5.5 crore for the establishment of three science centres, including one in Umuri in Koraput district. Science and Technology Minister Badri Narayan Patra informed this in response to a question of Congress member Tara Prasad Bahinipati in the State Assembly on Thursday.
Patra said monthly science magazine ‘ Bigyan Diganta’ and English science magazine ‘Science Horizon’ published by the Odisha Science Akademi are provided free of cost to recognised Government high schools, English medium schools and plus two and plus three colleges in Koraput district.
In 2017, the Institute of Mathematics and Application organised a refresher course in advance mathematics for high school teachers in which 17 teachers from Koraput had participated, informed Patra.
Patra also said 76 students receiving Pathani Samanta Mathematics Scholarship and their teachers in undivided Koraput joined a training camp.