Joykumar inaugurates residential training workshop
Source: The Sangai Express / DIPR

Imphal, March 21 2018: Deputy Chief Minister Yumnam Joykumar Singh today inaugurated a 'Four Days Residential Training Workshop on Hands on Science' at Youth Hostel in Khuman Lampak.

The training organised by Manipur Science & Technology Council (MASTEC) in association with Vigyan Prasar, Noida of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, aims at imparting scientific knowledge in the easiest way to school teachers mostly from the hill districts.

Speaking at the inaugural function, the Deputy Chief Minister said that teachers should arouse the interest of students and make them think what science is all about.

He said that thinking, imagination and observation are the basic steps through which we can understand the basic principles of science.

Most of the students are good in technology learning but they lack learning pure science.

As such, we need to focus on learning pure science, he added.

Joykumar mentioned that students in the valley are good in science and mathematics but most of the students in the hills are lagging behind in these subjects.

Therefore, teachers should motivate them to learn these two subjects.

Science cannot be taught without the strong base of mathematics, he said.

He also said that interactive learning process will help to arouse students' interest and it will also be helpful to impart them the basic knowledge of science in the school level.

Such training will help teachers to focus on imparting knowledge of science in the easiest way to the students, he added.

Professor BN Das, renowned Physicist, who is also a resource person in the training workshop said that concept of science is very important in human lives.

He said that most of the process in our life is associated with scientific ideas and therefore imparting scientific knowledge and sharing scientific ideas to the younger generation are important.

Scientific ideas will come first and after that technology will automatically come for its application, he added.

Secretary (Science & Technology) Nidhi Kesarwani said that teachers should motivate their students to impart knowledge of science in the schools.

She said that motivation is the basic step towards teaching and teachers should also understand the curiosity of their students.

It is in this direction that the department has been working and such trainings will definitely help teachers to impart scientific knowledge to students in the easiest way, she said.

Director (MASTEC) Th Surendranath Singh also spoke on the importance of imparting scientific knowledge to the students in the school level.

Altogether 55 teachers from the hill districts, who have been nominated by Directorate of Education (S) attended the training.

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