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CHAT SESSIONS

Chat sessions on Vigyan Prasar Homepage www.vigyanprasar.com or www.vigyanprasar.org have turned out to be quite popular since we had the first one on May 26, 2001. The one hour on-line interactive chat session on different S&T topics are, by and large, held every fortnight. On June 06, 2001, the topic of the chat session was "Ham Radio in India". The expert was Shri Saharuddin, President, Amateur Radio Society of India, himself a ham of long standing and one who has contributed a great deal in popularising ham radio in the country. Shri Saharuddin answered some 25 questions on various aspects related to ham radio _ from very elementary to those related to policy and technical details.


Prof V.S.Ramamurthy replying to the queries during the chat session.Also seen on are Dr V B Kamble(second from left) and Shri Anuj SInha,Head,NCSTC(fourth from left)


On July 13, 2001, Prof. V.S. Ramamurthy, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology and Chairman, Governing Body of Vigyan Prasar, answered questions on the theme "Thinking Scientifically". The response was overwhelming. Prof. Ramamurthy answered over 30 questions in one hour. As a matter of fact, due to paucity of time, questions from several participants could not be answered. We have received several questions through e-mail as well, which Professor Ramamurthy will answer later on. It is interesting to note that the participants ranged from the very young to grown-ups and experts in different fields.
The next chat session would be on August 03, 2001, Friday, 11.00 a.m. and the expert will be Dr. Yatish Aggarwal, Doctor and popular Health Columnist. He was our expert for chat session on June 09, 2001 too. Due to public demand, Vigyan Prasar will be organising one more chat session with Dr. Aggarwal on the topic "Health and Medicine". Please do log on to www.vigyanprasar.com (or www.vigyanprasar.org).

 

Shri Sahruddin.President,Amateur Radio Society of India

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