The training programme, billed as the first such attempt to impart management skills to elected representatives, assumes significance at a time when the Centre has stopped funds to Bengal under several rural development schemes, including 100 days’ job and rural roads
Engineers' Day: The first IIT was established at Kharagpur in 1951 and the latest IIT was established in Goa in 2016. There are a total of 23 IITs across the country.
A senior scientist named Dr Sankarasubramanian K is the Principal Scientist for the Aditya-L1 Mission. Nikarshaji is a woman scientist from Sengottai, Tenkasi district, who is working as the Aditya L-1 Project Director.
S Somanath, Secretary, of the Department of Space and Chairperson, was the leading man behind the success of Chandrayaan 3 along with P Veeramuthuvel, the Project Director of Chandrayaan 3, and Kalpana Kalahasti who was the deputy project director for Chandrayaan-3 mission.