National Council of Science Museums
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National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) is an autonomous organization under Indian Ministry of Culture
. It is the largest chain of science centers or museums under a single administrative umbrella in the world. There are 24 own science centers or museums and one R & D laboratory and Training centre of NCSM, located in different states in India
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Fully developed Science Centres for different state governments by NCSM:
, Pilani is being offered from 2005 at Kolkata.
Ministry of Culture (India)
The Ministry of Culture is the Indian government ministry charged with preservation and promotion of art and culture.The Minister of Culture holds cabinet rank as a member of the Council of Ministers. The current minister is Dr...
. It is the largest chain of science centers or museums under a single administrative umbrella in the world. There are 24 own science centers or museums and one R & D laboratory and Training centre of NCSM, located in different states in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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Units of NCSM
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- Birla Industrial & Technological MuseumBirla Industrial & Technological MuseumBirla Industrial & Technological Museum , a unit under National Council of Science Museums [NCSM], Ministry of Culture, Government of India, is at Gurusaday road, Kolkata.-History:...
, KolkataKolkataKolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
, inaugurated on 2 May 1959
- Birla Industrial & Technological Museum
- Bardhaman Science Centre, Babur Bagh, inaugurated on 9 January 1994
- Digha Science Centre & National Science Camp, New DighaDighaDigha is a seaside resort town in the state of West Bengal, India. It lies in East Midnapore district and at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal. It is the most popular sea resort in the West Bengal....
, inaugurated on 31 August 1997 - Dhenkanal Science Centre, OrissaOrissaOrissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
, inaugurated on 5 June 1995 - District Science Centre, PuruliaPuruliaPurulia , also spelled Puruliya, also known as "Manbhum City", is a city located in West Bengal state, India, and was constituted in 1876. It is the location of the district headquarters of Purulia district. Purulia is located on the north of the Kasai river and is a major road and railway...
, inaugurated on 15 December 1982 - Kapilas Science Park, DhenkanalDhenkanal, IndiaDhenkanal is a city and a municipality in Dhenkanal district in the state of Orissa, India.-Geography:Dhenkanal is located at . It has an average elevation of 80 metres .-Demographics:...
, inaugurated on 5 June 1995 - North Bengal Science Centre, MatigaraMatigaraMatigara is an administrative division in Siliguri subdivision of Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Matigara Investigation Centre and Siliguri police stations serve this block. Headquarters of this block is at Kadamtala...
, inaugurated on 17 August 1997 - Regional Science Centre, BhubaneswarBhubaneswarBhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, officially Odisha. The city has a long history of over 2000 years starting with Chedi dynasty who had Sisupalgarh near present-day Bhubaneswar as their capital...
, inaugurated on 18 September 1989 - Srikrishna Science Centre, PatnaPatnaPaṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...
, inaugurated on 14 April 1978
- Central Research & Training Laboratory, KolkataKolkataKolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
, R & D laboratory and Training centre of NCSM. Operational since 1 January 1988 and dedicated to the nation on 13 March 1993
- Regional Science Centre, GuwahatiGuwahatiGuwahati, Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam formerly known as Gauhati is a metropolis,the largest city of Assam in India and ancient urban area in North East India, with a population of 963,429. It is also the largest metropolitan area in north-eastern India...
, operational since 1994Former Director Generals - Saroj Ghose
Saroj GhoseSaroj Ghose, born in Kolkata, is an Indian science popularizer and museum maker. He was the director of Birla Industrial & Technological Museum and director general of the National Council of Science Museums, Government of India...- Ingit Kumar Mukhopadhyay
- Saroj Ghose
- National Science CentreNational Science Centre, DelhiThe National Science Centre established in 1992, is a science museum in Delhi, India. It is part of the National Council of Science Museums , an autonomous body under India's Ministry of Culture...
, DelhiDelhiDelhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
, inaugurated on 9 January 1992
- Regional Science City, LucknowLucknowLucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....
, operational since 1989 - Kurukshetra Panorama & Science Centre, HaryanaHaryanaHaryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...
, operational since 2000
- Nehru Science CentreNehru Science CentreNehru Science Centre, Mumbai is India's largest interactive science center, located in Worli. The centre is named after India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The centre started with the 'Light and Sight' exhibition in 1977 and then a Science Park was built in 1979...
, MumbaiMumbaiMumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, inaugurated on 11 November 1985
- District Science Centre, DharampurDharampur, GujaratDharampur is a city and a municipality in Valsad district in the state of Gujarat, India.-Geography:Dharampur is located at . It has an average elevation of 74 metres ....
, operational since 1984 - Goa Science Centre, Panjim, operational since 2002
- Raman Science Centre & PlanetariumRaman Science CentreThe Raman Science Centre at Nagpur is an interactive science center affiliated with Mumbai's Nehru Science Centre. The centre was developed to promote a scientific attitude, portray the growth of science and technology and their applications in industry and human welfare, and hold science exhibits...
, NagpurNagpurNāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...
, operational since 1992 & 1996 respectively - Regional Science Centre, Bhopal, operational since 1995
- Regional Science Centre & Planetarium, Calicut, operational since 1997
- Science CityScience City KolkataScience City, Kolkata is the largest science centre in the Indian subcontinent under National Council of Science Museums , Ministry of Culture, Government of India, is at the crossing of Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and J B S Haldane avenue, Kolkata...
, Kolkata, fully operational since 1 July 1997
- Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological MuseumVisvesvaraya Industrial and Technological MuseumThe Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum is a museum in Bangalore, India. Its management comes under the National Council of Science Museums , Government of India.-Establishment:...
, BangaloreBangaloreBengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, operational since 1965
- District Science Centre, GulbargaGulbargaGulbarga is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the administrative headquarters of Gulbarga District. It was formerly part of Nizam's Hyderabad state...
, operational since 1984 - District Science Centre, TirunelveliTirunelveliTirunelveli , also known as Nellai , and historically as Tinnevelly, is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the headquarters of the Tirunelveli District and the sixth biggest city in Tamil Nadu...
, operational since 1987 - Regional Science Centre, Tirupati, operational since 1993
Fully developed Science Centres for different state governments by NCSM:
- Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre, ItanagarItanagarItanagar is the capital of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Itanagar is situated at the foothills of Himalayas. It comes administratively under Papum Pare district....
, inaugurated on 3 December 2005 - Kalimpong Science Centre, Darjeeling, inaugurated on 2 October 2008
- Kalpana Chawla Memorial Planetarium, KurukshetraKurukshetraKurukshetra is a land of historical and religious importance. Historically the land belonged to Punjab now a district in Haryana state of India. It is a holy place and is also known as Dharmakshetra . According to the Puranas, Kurukshetra is named after King Kuru, the ancestor of Kauravas and...
, inaugurated on 24 July 2007 - Maharaja Ranjit Singh Panorama, AmritsarAmritsarAmritsar is a city in the northern part of India and is the administrative headquarters of Amritsar district in the state of Punjab, India. The 2001 Indian census reported the population of the city to be over 1,500,000, with that of the entire district numbering 3,695,077...
, inaugurated on 20 July 2006 - Manipur Science Centre, ImphalImphalImphal is the capital of the Indian state of Manipur.In the heart of the town and surrounded by a moat, are ruins of the old Palace of Kangla. Kangla Fort used to be the home of the Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force and on November 2004 it was handed over to state of Manipur by Prime minister Dr....
, inaugurated on 18 May 2005 - Mizoram Science Centre, Aizwal, inaugurated on 26 July 2003
- Nagaland Science Centre, DimapurDimapurDimapur in Nagaland is bounded by Kohima district on the south and east, Karbi Anglong district of Assam on the West, the Karbi Anglong and stretch of Golaghat District of Assam, in the west and the north...
, inaugurated on 14 September 2004 - Ranchi Science CentreRanchi Science CentreRanchi Science Centre is the first science centre in the state of Jharkhand in India, under Jharkhand Council on Science & Technology of Department of Science & Technology, Government of Jharkhand...
, JharkhandJharkhandJharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...
, inaugurated on 29 November 2010 - Rajiv Gandhi Science Centre, Port LouisPort Louis-Economy:The economy is dominated by its port, which handles Mauritius' international trade. The port was founded by the French who preferred Port Louis as the City is shielded by the Port Louis/Moka mountain range. It is the largest container handling facility in the Indian Ocean and can...
, inaugurated on 30 November 2004 - Science Centre Port Blair, AndamanAndaman IslandsThe Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal between India to the west, and Burma , to the north and east...
, inaugurated on 30 May 2003 - Shillong Science Centre, MeghalayaMeghalayaMeghalaya is a state in north-eastern India. The word "Meghalaya" literally means the Abode of Clouds in Sanskrit and other Indic languages. Meghalaya is a hilly strip in the eastern part of the country about 300 km long and 100 km wide, with a total area of about 8,700 sq mi . The...
, inaugurated on 27 February 2006 - Sikkim Science Centre, MarchakMarchakThe House of Marchak was founded by Joseph Marchak, a young talented jeweler in 1878, in Kiev, then Russia. Considered one of the great competitors of Fabergé at the beginning of last century and sometimes called “The Cartier of Kiev”, the Marchak company employed 150 workers at the start of the...
, inaugurated on 22 February 2008 - Solapur Science Centre, South MaharashtraMaharashtraMaharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
, inaugurated on 14 February 2010
Upcoming Science Centres
NCSM is now developing science centres at the following places in India with collaboration by the respective State Governments.- CoimbatoreCoimbatoreCoimbatore , also known as Kovai , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a major commercial centre in Tamil Nadu and is known as the "Manchester of South India"....
- DharwadDharwadDharwad, also known as Dharwar, is a city and a DISTRICT PLACE in India's Karnataka state.Dharwad is the administrative seat of the Dharwad District. The municipality of Hubli-Dharwad covers an area of 200.23 km²...
- DehradunDehradun- Geography :The Dehradun district has various types of physical geography from Himalayan mountains to Plains. Raiwala is the lowest point at 315 meters above sea level, and the highest points are within the Tiuni hills, rising to 3700 m above sea level...
- JaipurJaipurJaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
- Jammu & Kashmir
- JodhpurJodhpurJodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital, Jaipur and from the city of Ajmer. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, the capital of the kingdom known as Marwar...
- JorhatJorhatJorhat is a city of Assam in India. Jorhat was established as a new capital in the closing years of the 18th century by the declining Tunkhungia Ahom Dynasty. Jorhat, as the name signifies, was just a couple of markets . Two parallel markets namely, Chowkihat and Macharhat, lay on the eastern...
- Pilikula
- Pondicherry
- PunePunePune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
- Raipur
Post Graduate Course
A two years full time four semester Master of Science course in Science Communication in collaboration with the Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBirla Institute of Technology and Science
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, is a private university located in Pilani, Rajasthan, India. BITS Pilani is considered one of the most prestigious and selective universities in India...
, Pilani is being offered from 2005 at Kolkata.