Government launched Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan 2020-21

Health and Family Welfare Ministry has launched ‘Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan, 2020-21. This initiative is a national programme for popularizing science among school students of Class 6th to 11th. It was designed to identify the bright minds with a scientific aptitude among the student community.

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Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan (VVM) is an initiative of Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA), in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous organization under the Department of Science and Technology, and NCERT, an institution under the Ministry of Education.

VVM is a national program for popularizing science among school students of standard VI to XI, conceptualised to identify the bright minds with a scientific aptitude among the student community.

NCERT is an organisation set up in 1961 to assist and advise the central and state governments on academic matters related to school education.

The objective of NCERT is to undertake, promote and coordinate research in areas related to school education, to prepare and publish model textbooks, supplementary material, newsletters, journals and to develop educational kits, multimedia digital materials, etc.