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Children’s science park coming up in Madurai

Shastry V. Mallady

It will display 25 exhibits

Project to cost Rs. 10 lakh
To be set up around planetarium building

MADURAI: The Government has cleared a Rs.10-lakh-project to establish a ‘Children’s Science Park’ on the Madurai Kamaraj University campus here.

Students of city schools will be able to learn, feel and enjoy science through the exhibits, which will be provided by Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre, Chennai.

While formal clearance for this park came last week, engineers from the Science and Technology Centre visited the varsity on Friday to draw up a blue print.

Extension

The park is an extension of the proposed planetarium project at the MKU, which for many months remained a non-starter.

“Since the planetarium project is yet to take-off due to some delays, the Government wanted to do something for science.

So it included a science park for children in the original proposal and wanted to start with that,” said V. Ramakrishnan, coordinator for planetarium project and faculty member in the School of Physics at MKU.

Work to start soon

Varsity authorities are expecting the construction work to start soon and that it would not meet the same delays like the planetarium. The park, coming up around the existing planetarium building, would have 25 science exhibits based on physics.

According to Dr. Ramakrishnan, the science park clearance came through the efforts of Madurai Member of Parliament, P. Mohan, who took up the issue with the Government.

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