Rally in city seeking primacy for science

Scientists, researchers, technical experts, science teachers, students and science lovers of the city organised a march on Friday as part of the Global March for Science.

The march which began at the Institution of Engineers’ Hall concluded at the Kerala University office.

March for Science Thiruvananthapuram organising committee chairman D.Krishna Warrier inaugurated the march, in which hundreds of people participated.

In a seminar held before the march, R.Umesh, Professor at IIST, presented a talk on how scientific temper could be nurtured in children.

The march put forward various demands, including the nurturing of scientific temper, teaching of only those ideas which have scientific proof in schools, stopping the spreading of unscientific ideas, scientific base for government policy formation, and the allocation of 3% of GDP for research and 10% for education.

Astro Kerala, Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad, Breakthrough Science Society, and other science organisations were the organisers of the science march.