106th Session of Indian Science Congress Inaugurated

Published on January 06, 2019
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi delivered the inaugural address at the 106th session of the Indian Science Congress.
106th Session of Indian Science Congress Inaugurated
  • The 106th Indian Science Congress is being held at Jalandhar.
  • The theme of the 106th science congress is 'Future India: Science and Technology'.
  • Reflecting on the theme of 'Future India: Science and Technology', PM Modi said that he would like to add Jai Anusandhan to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's famous slogan of Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan and Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Jai Vigyan.
  • He gave the nation a new slogan Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan and Jai Anusandhan.

About the Indian Science Congress:

  • Indian Science Congress is organised by the Indian Science Congress Association every year in the first week of January.
  • The Indian Science Congress Association was started in the year 1914 in Kolkata and has a membership of more than 30,000 scientists.
  • The two British chemists, namely, Professor J. L. Simonsen and Professor P. S. MacMahon thought that scientific research in India might be stimulated if an annual meeting of research workers somewhat on the lines of the British Association for the Advancement of Science could be arranged.
  • This led to the establishment of the Indian Science Congress Association and the annual session of the Indian Science Congress.

Question:

Q. Where is the 106th Indian Science Congress being held?
a. Kolkata
b. Jalandhar
c. Delhi
d. Hyderabad

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