{"id":108942,"date":"2021-02-17T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=108942"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:34:15","slug":"second-phase-of-vigyan-jyoti-programme-commenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/second-phase-of-vigyan-jyoti-programme-commenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Second phase of Vigyan Jyoti programme commenced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: International Day of Women and Girls in Science is observed every year on-<\/strong><br>a) February 14<br>b) February 11<br>c) January 11<br>d) March 11<br><strong>Answer: (b)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On February 11, 2021; the second phase of Vigyan Jyoti programme commenced.<\/li><li>Vigyan Jyoti programme is a new initiative to encourage girls to take interest in science and build career, was launched by the Department of Science &amp; technology.<\/li><li>The programme has been commenced on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science.<\/li><li>This day has been chosen purposely to spread the programme for encouraging girls to take interest in science and build a career in STEM.<\/li><li>The aim is to spread the programme to 50 more districts adding to the existing 50 districts across the country.<\/li><li>Secretary, Department of science and Technology (DST) Prof Ashutosh Sharma, expressed hope that this programme would improve further comparatively to previous one.<\/li><li>He said that it will expand to more and more districts of the country to empower women and help increase number of women in top science institutes.<\/li><li>He said that under-representation of women is a multi-dimensional problem, and we need to see the problems from all angles and give a little push to get the desired result.<\/li><li>The New Education Policy and the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy could remove the constraints.<\/li><li>This programme will make use of the demographic dividend to progress long in short time to help increase number of women in science.<\/li><li>He suggested that interaction with girls should increase with all sort of role models, especially women achievers.<\/li><li>It had been running successfully in 50 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNV) since December 2019 and has now been expanded to 50 more JNVs for the year 2021-22.<\/li><li>The programme addresses the under-representation of women in certain areas of STEM. A<\/li><li>As a first step, the programme has been started at school level for meritorious girls of Class IX to Class XII to encourage and empower them to pursue STEM courses in reputed institutions of the country.<\/li><li>Vigyan Jyoti activities include student-parent counseling, visit to labs and knowledge centres, partners role model interactions, science camps, academic support classes, resource material distribution and tinkering activities.<\/li><li>Online academic support to students includes streaming of video classes, study materials, daily practice problems and doubt clearing sessions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/indiaeducationdiary.in\/vigyan-jyoti-programme-spreads-to-100-districts-in-2nd-phase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indiaeducationdiary.in\/vigyan-jyoti-programme-spreads-to-100-districts-in-2nd-phase\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: International Day of Women and Girls in Science is observed every year on-a) February 14b) February 11c) January 11d) March 11Answer: (b)Related Facts:- On February 11, 2021; the second phase of Vigyan Jyoti programme commenced. 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