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Students had a great obligation to strive for social change in their own ways:Meira Kumar
Posted by ganesh in Award, Chennai, College, Communication, Culture, Departments, Information, programme on February 9th, 2010
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar conferring an honorary degree of Doctor in Science on ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan (left) at the convocation of SRM University in Kattankulathur on Monday. Others in the picture are University Chancellor T.R. Pachamuthu (right) and Vice-Chancellor P. Sathyanarayanan.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Monday called for an integrated approach in the education system by combining science with humanities to help young men and women understand society better.
Addressing the 5th convocation of SRM University in Kattankulathur near here, she said there was a need for incorporating aspects of humanities into the curricula of science specialisations.
There was also a need to humanise science disciplines in order to inculcate in the minds of students, a perspective about the individual, society, the nation and the world. “Every educated youngster should have a perspective about how our polity works and what our Constitution seeks to achieve for the nation,” she said.
She added that as educated youth, students had a great obligation to strive for social change in their own ways and guard against social evils such as gender discrimination, the dowry system, domestic violence and female foeticide.
Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K. Radhakrishnan, who received an honorary degree of Doctor in Science, said India was instrumental in discovering water particles on the moon through Chandrayaan. Whatever India had achieved in the area of space science was the efforts of its work in the past five decades.
Among the six countries to have capabilities for satellites and launch vehicles, Mr. Radhakrishnan said the entire world looked up to India now. He also said a nano satellite designed at the SRM would be sent along with ISRO’s PSLV in 2010.
A total of 4,519 students from 86 disciplines received undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma certificates and doctorates.
Prashantha Battacharya, B.Tech Computer Science, received the Corporation Bank’s Gold Medal for the best outgoing student. T.R. Pachamuthu, SRM University Chancellor, presided. P. Sathyanarayanan, Vice-Chancellor presented the annual report. P. Ravi and T.P. Ganesan, Pro Chancellors, were also present.
ISRO would test the liquid stage at the Liquid Propulsion Centre at TN later this month.
Posted by ganesh in Air way, Chennai, Communication, Culture, Departments, ISRO, Information, Other, Science, government, programme on February 8th, 2010
After the successful static testing of Solid Propellant Booster Rocket Stage S-200 for GSLV Mk III Launch Vehicle at the spaceport of Sriharikota, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would test the liquid stage (two liquid engines with 110 tonnes of propellants) at the Liquid Propulsion Centre at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu later this month.
Talking to reporters after receiving the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) at the fifth convocation of SRM University here, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said ”we are in the final stages of preparation for the tests.” ”The preparations are on at Mahendragiri. Initially we will have a short duration test for 14 seconds this month. After analysing all the performance, we will have the long duration test for about 200 seconds. This would be a week or ten days after the short duration test,” Dr Radhakrishnan added.
”It would take about a week or ten days to analyse all the data of the short duration test. After studying its data in detail and if all the parameters are successful, then we will go for the long duration test,” he noted.
It may be recalled that ISRO successfully conducted the static test of its largest solid booster – S200 – at SHAR range on January 24. The successful test of S200 makes it the third largest solid booster in the world, next to the RSRM solid booster of Space Shuttle and P230 solid booster of ARIANE-5.
The S200 solid booster would form the strap-on stage for the GSLV-Mk III which was currently under advanced stage of development for placing four ton class of communication satellites in Geo Sunsynchronous Orbit.
S200 solid booster contains 200 tonnes of solid propellant in three segments and its successful test was a major milestone in the solid rocket motor programme of ISRO and a vital step in the development of GSLV Mk III.
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