Staff Reporter
India’s Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space Dr Jitendra Singh on Saturday said that India’s Nuclear Programme is for improving quality of life and not for causing harm to human life.
Dr Singh said that India has covered a long journey since the inception of the Atomic Energy programme by Dr Homi Bhabha based on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. He said that time has come to renew the noble pledge of Dr Bhabha as “Sankalp Se Siddhi”.
He was chairing the meeting of the reconstituted Joint Hindi Salahkar Samiti of Department of Atomic Energy and Department Space in New Delhi today.
The Minister said, even during COVID pandemic, the Department of Atomic Energy came out with novel innovations like COVID BEEP, India’s first indigenous, cost effective, wireless physiological parameters monitoring system for COVID-19 patients.
Dr Jitendra Singh also informed that the Department of Atomic Energy and Tata Memorial Centre, with assistance from Tata Trust, is setting up additional units in Bihar, Assam and Uttarakhand.
He called upon the members of Committee and Department of Rajbhasha to take steps to popularise the achievements of Space and Nuclear Technology among the common through proper translation in Hindi and Vernacular languages through professional translators. He also laid stress on proper translation of Science textbooks and literature in Hindi and regional languages.
Dr Singh underlined that Prime Minister Narendra Modi always pitched for using vernacular languages in promoting science communication in a big way to develop love of science in the youth and underlined that language should not be a barrier but a facilitator.
The Minister said that Space Technology is being applied in diverse fields and sectors to bring ease of living for common man. He said that in the recent past Drone Technology is being used to bring a new revolution in the field of agriculture.
Dr Jitendra Singh was informed by members of the Advisory Committee that some of the MBBS syllabus will be taught in Hindi at Gandhi Medical College Bhopal from May this year.