NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY

             National Science Day is celebrated all over India on 28 February. In 1928 an Indian Scientist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman discovered a phenomenon known as Raman Effect and for his remarkable discovery in 1930 he got Nobel Prize, which was the first Nobel Prize in India in the field of Science and to mark this discovery every year National Science Day is celebrated.

 

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When this day is declared as National Science Day

            In 1986, the National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC) asked the Government of India to designate 28 February as National Science Day. The government had accepted it and declared 28 February as National Science Day in 1986. The first National Science Day was celebrated on February 28, 1987.