Haryana Plans Science City at Sampla in Rohtak District

The Haryana Science and Technology Department has decided to set up a Science City at Sampla in Rohtak district.

Information to this effect was made though a press release issued by the Haryana Information and Public Relations Department on Friday that Science and Technology Department has decided to set up a Science City at Sampla in Rohtak district, two centres of excellence at Hisar and Murthal and an Science Park at Kaithal.

The press release says that the setting up of Science City at Sampla would cost Rs 50 crore and it was being set up in collaboration with the Union Ministry of Culture, which will provide Rs 30 crore for the project. "A proposal to this effect has been submitted to the Union Ministry of Culture and the Haryana Government has earmarked 30 acres of Sampla Municipal Committee land for the purpose.",

The department also plans to set up a Science Park at Kaithal.

Out of the two Centres of Excellence being set up to bend science to serve the man in the street, the about Rs 2.34 crore "DNA testing and diagnostics facility for research and application in Haryana" will be located at the Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Hisar, and the Rs one crore "Renewable Energy Test Centre" would be set up at Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal.

Assigned the task of taking science to every home and farm, the Hisar-based Haryana Space Application Centre (HARSAC) of the department has completed a Following projects:

1.      Providing pre-harvest district-wise acreage and production forecasts of major crops like wheat, mustard, paddy, cotton and sugarcane using satellite data

2.       preparing resource atlas of Rohtak district

3.       Land degradation studies in 16 districts of Haryana

4.       Soil carbon pool assessment in Haryana for the Department of Space, Government of India

5.      Satellite-based survey of the proposed site of the Gorakhpur Atomic Power Plant (GAP)

6.      Wasteland change analysis of all districts

7.      Wetland inventory of Haryana and Delhi

8.      Scanning and preservation of old revenue documents of Ambala.

9.      Work on the project of mapping of degraded lands and ground water availability in Haryana is in progress.

At present, the HARSAC is also engaged in the task of preparing monthly agricultural drought report of the state, using satellite data regularly provided to various user departments.

It is also working on making evaluation of 43 micro-watersheds in various districts, using high resolution satellite data; and demarcation of the unauthorized colonies in all municipal towns of Haryana.

It is also developing digital database of all government assets; geo-morphological and lineament mapping on 1:50,000 scale for Haryana and Delhi; space-based information System for Decentralized Planning (SIS-DP) with funding of about Rs nine crores by the ISRO; scientific evaluation of water purification system in Haryana; and work on modernization of the land records of Haryana has been initiated for the Revenue Department.

Besides, the Centre for Plant Biotechnology (CPB), Hisar, has developed technologies for commercial multiplication of sugarcane, safed musli, guava, alovera, banana, stevia, eucalyptus and bamboo. through tissue culture techniques.

At Yaumna Nagar, 70 hectares of land of Forest Department has been planted with elite edible bamboos. Three new projects worth Rs.3.44 crores were sanctioned by Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India and Haryana Government.

To enhance the employability of the youth of the state, training programme has been organized for 122 students in frontier area of biotechnology.

Two patent awareness workshops were organized at Deen Bandhu Sir Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal and at CPB, Hisar. A zonal level seminar on ‘Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants Physiological and Biotechnological approaches" was organized at CPB, Hisar.

Four Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Cells at Ch Devi Lal University,Sirsa, Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology,Hisar, BPS Mahila University, Khanpur Kalan and Deen Bandhu Sir Chhotu Ram University of Science andTechnology, Murthal were opened.

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