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Vacation Training Programme on Bioresources for School Children at Gujarat Science City

To attract, encourage and create interest among bright students about the rich bioresources and its importance, Gujarat Council of Science City is organizing a four-week “Vacation Training Programme on Bioresources for School Students” at Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad from 2nd May to 28th May 2005. The programme has catalyzed and supported by the National Bioresource Development Board (NBDB) of Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India.

OUTREACH PROGRAM OF GUJARAT SCIENCE CITY

Students were amazed to see the wonderrs of the SKy oBservation inside the inflatable planetorium . Lots of students were linned up to crawl downinside the planetorium.

Environment Awareness Fair at Indroda Nature Park, Gandhinagar during 19 - 20th February 2005

The Gujarat Science City participated in a two-days Environment Awareness Camp held at Indroda Nature Park, Gandhinagar during 19-20 February 2005. GEER Foundation organized the district level camp in collaboration with Water and Sanitation Management Organization (WASMO), Gandhinagar. The activities included exhibition by eco-clubs members and the other organizations and institutions, who are working for the cause of environment education and conservation.

The camp aimed at creating environmental awareness through students by setting up eco-clubs in schools. It was a part of its main programme for the National Green crops (NGC) programme, being sponsored by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF), Govt of India. In Gujarat, GEER Foundation is working as the nodal agency and is now coordinating 3750 eco-clubs in the state with an around 150 eco-clubs in each of the 25 districts of the State.

The Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Shri M. L. Sharma inaugurated the camp on 19th February 2005. In his inaugural address, Shri Sharma highlighted the importance of environment awareness programme and asked for the student's role in spreading the awareness about environment education and its protection.

Earlier, Shri C. N. Pandey, Director, GEER Foundation welcomed the participants, dignitaries and the participating organizations. He informed that the foundation is conducting several nature camps in and around Indroda Nature Park and providing an ideal platform for nature education components.

The Gujarat Science City opened its stall by displaying all its programmes and activities on environment and nature education as well as training on bioresources and biodiversity. Shri S. D. Vora, Executive Director, Gujarat Science City visited the camp both the days and supervised the activities. He also interacted with the senior officers of the Department of Forests, Govt of Gujarat and enlightened about various innovative nature education programmes of the Science City.

Among the other organizations, the Centre for Environment Education (CEE), WASMO, Gandhinagar, Department of Forests, Govt of Gujarat, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Department of Post are also participated in this two day camp and setup their informative stalls.

Many interested school level eco-club members, forest officers and conservators and the local teachers visited Science City stall and shown their interest and desires for the activities on science city as well as nature camps. Several films on nature education and interactive activities were shown to the visitors on LCD screen. Dr. Narottam Sahoo along with the Technician Shri Dharmenda Mauria and student volunteers, Ms. Tarika Patel, Shri Hemant Soni coordinated the activities of the camp.

The Science City also put up the inflatable planetarium and arranged shows the students and the general visitors of the camps on sky observation. Shri Pradip Mavadhiya and Devarsh Patel Conducted the planetarium shows.

Both the days there were lots of student activities like poster painting, essay writing and skit presentations. The valedictory function was organized on 20th February evening. Shri Arjun Singh, IAS, Secretary, Department of Forests, Govt of Gujarat addressed the participants as Chief Guest and had a high regard for their concerns and activities on environment awareness. He distributed prizes and certificates to the meritorious students. During the function, the Gujarat Science City was awarded a memento as a token of appreciation on its programmes and activities.

It was a good experience by participating and interacting with the students and the resource persons working on eco-club projects. It also helped us to identify the active eco-clubs and their coordinators for further training activity at science city during the year 2005-2006.


Bhoomi Pujan on 11-Feb-05

Humble beginning: Bhoomi Pujan of Road, Parking and Utility construction work in Science City on 11.02.2005 in the hand of Shri Vagmin Buch, Additional Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Govt of Gujarat in presence of Shri S. D. Vora, Executive Director, Gujarat Science City.
 
 
Life and Health
Bone marrow transplant center at GCRI

HE Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute has set up the State's first Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) center which will treat almost 20 patients per year. The Institute is the only specialist center, which will transplant bone marrow into cancer patients.

Also the Rs 4 crore Linear Accelerator machine-used for radiotherapy for cancer patients will finally be operational from Tuesday. The highly advance machine, which was lying unused since its purchase a year ago due to inadequate Infrastructure, will provide curative radiotherapy treatment to almost 50 patients everyday. Both, the machine and the BMT center will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.

The machine has been installed at the radiology department. It has taken the hospital authorities almost a year to go through all the for mailites, "We bought the machine last year to evade the five per cent increase in custom duty in last year's budget. However, we had to construct the building in a manner which satisfied the criteria of Radiation Protection Council (RPC) and only after a team from Bhaba Atomic Research Center (BARC) inspected the building, were we allowed to procced," Informs Director of GCRI, Dr Devendra Patel. The walls of the center are six feet thick and during the time the patient is being treated, no one is permitted to enter the walled cabin.

Although the hospital has three other radiology machines, the Linear Accelerator is equipped with dual photon and electron energies, has a networking server with simulator and treatment planning system, is ready to use for stereotacticradiotherapy as multi-leaf collimator for 3-D conformal radiotherapy.

The machine will treat all sorts of tumours while ensuring the radiations don't affect any other part, "For every patient we make a cast and leave open the area which has to be treated," informs Dr A Vyas, head of the radiotherapy department.

As per the institute's policy, patients with a monthly salary below Rs 5,000 will be treated free of cost while others would be changed minimally. "Compared to other hospitals offering radiotherapy, the changes here are perhaps the lowest," said Patel adding that the Government of India had supported GCRI by giving them Rs one crore The entire set-up cost about Rs one crore."At a time we can treat four patients," informs Dr Pankaj Shah. The institute already had a two-year old six-bedded bone marrow transplant center but have now developed an advanced center. The first patient in this BMT center will be admitted on Thursday.
 

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