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The Digital Mobile Planetarium, which brings an immersive astronomy acquisition straight to schoolhouse campuses done custom-built vehicles equipped with a 5-metre dome, 360-degree fish-eye projection, air-conditioning and precocious audio systems, has been launched.
The inaugural has been conceived to span the rural–urban spread successful entree to planetarium learning, enabling students to research the beingness from their ain schoolhouse premises.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who launched the inaugural connected November 26, said it had already reached implicit 17 lakh students.
Terming it a important accomplishment successful democratising entree to astronomy, helium said, “Our purpose is to spark technological curiosity successful agrarian children and bring high-quality subject acquisition person to them.”
Minister for Science and Technology N.S. Boseraju said the programme has been infused with upgraded technology.
He added that portion the mobile planetariums presently run successful a constricted fig of districts, the authorities is preparing to standard the inaugural crossed each districts successful Karnataka successful the coming months.
“We are committed to ensuring that each child, irrespective of geography, receives vulnerability to modern science,” helium said.
