City to host science congress

For the first time, Thiruvananthapuram is going to host the Indian
Science Congress.The 97th science congress under the general
presidentship of G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO, will be jointly
hosted by the Indian Space Research Organisation and the University of
Kerala. It will be held from January 3 to 7. The kick-off meeting
towards the final event was held here on Tuesday. It was presided over
by K. Radhakrishnan, Director, VSSC, who is also the chairman of the
local organising committee. G. Madhavan Nair and A. Jayakrishnan,
Vice-Chancellor, University of Kerala, and Education Minister M.A.
Baby were among those who spoke. The ISRO Chairman committed an amount
of Rs.5 crore as ISRO's share in the expenditure for organising the
science congress.

The Hindu, July 1