National Level

Aims and Objectives

1. To explain, disseminate and popularize different discoveries and advancements of science;
2. To cultivate correct, scientific and logical faculty of mind;
3. To foster consciousness against unscientific notions, superstitions, fanaticism, communalism, untouchability, casteism, and such other orthodoxy;
4. To study history and philosophy of science;
5. To inculcate ethical values and social responsibility in all fields of scientific endeavour;
6. To devise and introduce correct method of teaching and learning science;
7. To conduct campaign and movement for a secular, scientific and democratic education policy;
8. To mobilise opinion and move for the introduction of correct and pro-people government policies in regard to the development and application of science and technology for the benefit of the people;
9. To build up movements for the preservation of natural resources and for the correct use of science and technology to ensure sustainable development and protection of environment; and
10. To fight against the misuse of science employed for the destruction of humanity.
    

To achieve these desired goals, we organize:

1. Lectures, deliberations, debates, discussions, workshops, seminars, slide shows, nature studies, educational excursions, science camps, group study circles etc. Organize science awareness programmes against superstitions, astrology etc.
2. Improve science education through hands-on experiments in order to foster inquisitive mind and create a love for science among school students.
3. Promote amateur astronomy.
4. Organize literacy programmes for the illiterate people with a view to building up scientific outlook among them.
5. Create awareness about health, hygiene and dangers of drug addiction.
6. Provide farmers with modern ideas and innovations in agriculture with the aim of protecting the environment.
7. Conduct field studies on environmental pollution.
8. Obstruct the drainage of untreated toxic waste products into the environment by the industries.
9. Organize campaign against the unplanned and uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources guided by profit motive.
10. Fight far-reaching and dangerous influence of the profiteer-controlled audio visual media and to fight the all-pervading influence of consumerism.
11. To impart the ethics of science we highlight the life and struggle of scientists and humanists.