Dream 2047, July 2000 Issue

VP NEWS

National Repository of Science & Technology Videos

Vigyan Prasar’s initiative to set-up a National Repository of Science & Technology (S&T) videos has received excellent response from almost each of the 250 research institutes and organisations contacted for this purpose. Encouraged by this, Vigyan Prasar is moving ahead to work out all the necessary logistics for the repository. Meanwhile, the VHS (PAL) copies of the S&T videos produced by various organisations have started pouring in. Thus, the stage is set to bring together, at one place, the entire range of videos on science and technology produced in the country.In this manner the repository will not only be documenting the contemporary history of Indian science , it will also act as a nodal centre to systematically catalogue, preserve, store and retrieve the science videos. By sharing information on the available videos, the repository could help to avoid duplication of efforts and facilitate exchange of footage etc amongst the producers of such videos. To bridge the gap between the viewers and the videos, Vigyan Prasar would pick and choose videos available with the repository and consider screening them by organising travelling video festivals in different parts of country.

The coming issues of DREAM 2047 would carry reviews on videos available in the repository.Plans are also underway to bring out an annual catalogue of these videos. Following are the videos contributed by various research organisations to the National Repository of S&T Videos.

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Kalpakkam - 603 102, Tamil Nadu

1) Fast Breeder Test Reactor :

Key to abundant energy

2) IGCAR - A Brief Tour

Centre for Research in Medical Entomology No.-4, Sarojini Street, Chinna ChokkikulamMadurai - 625 002

3) Epidemology of Japanese

Encephalitis

4) Biodiversity of Mosquitoes

Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore - 560 220

5) Activities of Central Manufacturing Technology Institute

Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Dr. Nanabhai Moos Marg Colaba R.C. Church, Mumbai - 400 005

6) IIG : 150 Glorious Years

Raman Research Institute C.V. Raman Avenue Sadashivanaga Bangalore - 560 080

7) Evolution in Biology and in

Astronomy - Sir Fred Hoyle

8) Message of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatama Gandhi for the development of tribal people in India

- Dr. H. Sudarshan

9) On Medicine, Science and Humanism - Dr. P.K. Seth

10) The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics : Ashish Nandy

11) Your Culture is Your Identity :

Dr. Habib Tanvir

12) Pulsar and Relativitistic Gravity :

Prof. Joe Taylor

13) Was Einstein Right : Dr. Cliford M. Will

14) Mahatama Gandhi - A Sage of the

Scientific Age : Dr. C. Subramaniam

15) The Uniqueness of man in the

Upanishads and modern Science :

H.H. Swami Ranganathananda

16) Cosmic rays, star formation and

Star burst : Prof. R.D. Ekers

17) The Scientific Temper :

Sir Hermann Bondi

18) Verbal Caricatures of our leaders,

Our people and our times :

R.K. Laxman

19) Birds Flight :

Prof. S. Dhawan

20) A Pilgrim’s Progress :

Krishan Khanna

21) Economic Reforms, Poverty Eradication,

Self Rreliance and Ethical Value:

Dr. Manmohan Singh

Sugarcane Breeding Institute,  Coimbatore - 641 007,Tamil Nadu

22) New Sugarcane Varieties

23) Early Planting in Sugarcane

24) Sugarcane Seed Nursery Programme

25) Biofertilizers-I

26) Micropropagation in Sugarcane

27) Sugarcane germplasm

28) Breeding techniques I & II

29) Sugarcane pest and disease

management

30) Bio-fertilizers-II

31) Sugarcane Breeding Institute

Central Soil & material, Research Station Olof Palme Marg, Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016

32) Remote Operated Vehicle

Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre Bidhan Nagar, Calcutta - 700 064

33) Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre

Central Leather Research Institute Adyar, Chennai - 600 020.

34) A Silent Transformation : Wet Blue

Chrome Processing

35) LTM : a mission with a human face

36) Kalluppatti, Fallen Caracass Utilisation (FCU)

37) East India Tanning

38) Wealth from waste

39) East India Tanning : A distinct expression

40) Relating leather technology to the society

41) Eco Friendly processing/ Modernization

42) Tradition gives way to modernization

- An Indian Experience

43) Chrome Management

44) Relating leather technology to the

society (Marathi)