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NSCM developing science museums abroad

MUMBAI, Dec 18/2003: After gaining expertise in making science musuems, the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) is now taking up projects on a turn-key basis in foreign countries.
"We have enough expertise and are now helping foreign countries in making museums," NCSM Director-General I K Mukherjee told UNI here.

Mr Mukherjee said that the NSCM had developed one museum in Brisbane, Australia.
Besides this, he said, the NCSM, which comes under the umbrella of ministry of tourism, had also supplied exhibits to countries like Israel, Turkey, Bangladesh and Singapore.
A large-scale project is also in offing in Mauritius.

He revealed that neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Nepal had also approached the NCSM for developing museums in their countries.

"Rather than full-fledged museums, many of the countries are asking for exhibits to various themes," said the NCSM Chief, who was here for the inauguration of ‘hall of aerospace’ at the Nehru Science Centre at Worli here.

The exhibition was inaugurated on Wednesday by the world-renowned aviator and Raymond Ltd’s Chairman-Emeritus Vijaypat Singhania.

The NCSM currently runs about 28 science centres across the country and also runs 22 museo-buses in several places to take science to the rural areas.
He said that on December 22 a gallery on bio-technology will be inaugurated at Kolkata. For the next year, two major projects involve the completion of galleries on pre-historic life and electronics at science musuems in Delhi and Bangalore.

Mr Mukherjee said that the planned expenditure sanctioned by the Centre to the NCSM is around Rs 6.5 crore and the non-planned expenditure is around Rs 13 crore, while for the new projects it may get Rs two to five crore as per the need. (UNI)

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