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.
2017
THEME ‘Science and Technology for specially Abled Persons’
2016
THEME ‘Make in India: S&T driven innovations'
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.
