PM Modi to inaugurate 106th Indian Science Congress 2019 at Jalandhar on Jan. 3

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New Delhi : World’s largest science meet ‘Indian Science Congress (ISC)-2019’ will be held from January 3 to 7, 2019, at Jalandhar, Punjab. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 106th edition of ISC-2019 based on the theme ‘Future India: Science and Technology’ on January 3, 2019.

PM Modi will also address about 30,000 delegates including many Nobel Laureates, Union Cabinet Ministers of India, science policymakers, administrators, eminent scientists, young men-women researchers & school children from across India and abroad. During the five- day long congress, around 100 plus conferences and events of scientific and technology origin will also be held, where eminent personalities from DRDO, ISRO, DST, AIIMS, UGC, AICTE, and many elite universities of the USA, UK, India and other countries will participate. Union Cabinet ministers including Science and Technology Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and Textile Minister Smriti Irani will also attend the event.

Union Science and Technology Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan believes that the 106^th edition of Science Congress with its theme of ‘Future India : Science and Technology’ would help showcase what is being done, what can be done and what would define the future of Science and Technology in India. “ The Government’s aim is to deliver the benefits of Science & Technology to the last man in the society and scientists being a pivot should put their heart and soul into finding new solutions to the problems facing the nation and improve the quality of life of common man,” said Dr Harsh Vardhan in his message.

The Nobel Laureates who will be  participating include German-American biochemist Prof. Thomas Sudoph, who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on vesicle trafficking,  a Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry Prof Avram Hershko, and a British born physicist Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane who was awarded 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, according to a PIB release.

General President, Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Dr Manoj Kumar Chakrabarti believes that 106th session of ISC will be a milestone for the future development of India. Chancellor of Lovely Professional University (LPU), where the five-day  Congress is going to be held, Ashok Mittal, said, “ A special ‘Solar powered Multi-Seated Driver-Less Bus’ has been designed and created by our engineering students and this will ferry PM Modi to the ISC venue.

Other major attraction of ISC-2019 will be ‘Pride of India’ Expo to be organized separately under six gigantic stalls specially raised on LPU Campus.