Reference to Times of India. Lucknow, October 31, 2025 -Lucknow Indira Gandhi Planetarium has taken a massive step to popularize space education and scientific awareness in Uttar Pradesh. It is also a historic move by the planetarium as it is working alongside the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun of Indian Space Research Organisation. That too was initiated as a council of scientific and technology agreement Uttar Pradesh and it is a noteworthy move towards bridging the gap between scientific research and popular education.
The Foundation of Space Learning ought to be enhanced.
It is a registered association of the Indira Gandhi Planetaria and the ISRO-IIRS as an Outreach Nodal Network Institute. This prestigious award also allows the planetarium to design educational and training courses that bridge the scientific and technological spectrum of knowledge sciences including astrophysics, remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), photometry, and its uses.
Such efforts will allow students, teachers, and amateurs in the state to have good training and research material, which can be directly associated with the body of knowledge at ISRO.
A Vision of a Collaborative Scientific Progress.
It is on this understanding that the Indira Gandhi Planetarium, Lucknow is an extension of the ISRO-IIRS Outreach Programme Network.
According to him, the award was a major milestone in the field of space education and this enhances the contribution of Uttar Pradesh to scientific development of India.
Srivastava also explained that he will have the responsibility of organizing and managing all the educational and online training programs that are provided by ISRO- IIRS through the planetarium. To his seeming the outreach program of the ISRO should be centered at connecting the educational and research institutions across the country in order to establish the atmosphere of curiosity, innovation, and practice learning. The other advantage of the program also plays a part in practical experience in satellite data interpretation, space applications and new technologies that are transforming our perception of our planet and the one neighboring it.
Encouraging the Youth to participate in Astronomy.
Besides its collaboration with ISRO-IIRS, there is a club of the Indira Gandhi Planetarium, the Uttar Pradesh Amateur Astronomers Club (UPAAC). The club also boasts of a sizeable over 1,500 active members who comprise of students, hobbyists and lovers of astronomy and attend regularly to the star-gazing activities, workshops, and learning seminars.
The alliance will allow the members to have the opportunity to study the high-tech scientific modules and real space initiatives and enhance their expertise on space and satellites. It will also provide hope to a second generation scientific and engineers who will be in a position to work on the India space missions in future.
One Step towards Indianizing Uttar Pradesh into a Science Hub.
The cooperation is not entirely connected with education, but also with the creation of a scientific ecosystem on the state level. Indira Gandhi Planetarium can evoke the motivation to learn STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) among the young minds with the assistance of the structured training, research-motivated projects, and the presence of digital resources.
Moreover, the project complies with the vision of the National Education Policy of the incorporation of the technology-based education and experience-based learning into the normal academic life.
Conclusion
The new step of the education process in Uttar Pradesh is the collaboration with the Indira Gandhi Planetarium and the IIRS of the ISRO. With this project, it will be possible to afford space education and make it accessible to the state students due to the ISRO scientific experience and the outreach capability of the planetarium.
With the additional efforts and innovation, Uttar Pradesh will become the center of scientific knowledge and space research in India, as well as technological brilliance.
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