Four more planetariums on cards in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Four more planetariums will be set up in Odisha, informed Science & Technology Minister Ashok Chandra Panda here in Assembly today.

The four new planetariums will come up in Baripda, Rayagada, Keonjhar and Gopalpur at total cost of Rs 30 crore, he told the House.

Besides, the state government will open science centres in 10 districts for promotion of science, the minister said.

Earlier, three planetariums were on the cards in Gopalpur, Rayagada and Baripada. Along with the proposed planetariums, the government is planning to construct another one in Keonjhar.

Currently, the state has two planetariums in Bhubaneswar and Sambalpur. In 2017, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had inaugurated Odisha’s second planetarium in Sambalpur, which has been named after late President and scientist APJ Abdul Kalam.

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