Saturday, 23 June 2012

AIR too has the right mix


All India Radio (AIR), Bangalore, in association with Vigyan Prasar, Delhi, and Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishat, Bangalore, will air a new, 26-episode, educative series in Kannada on chemistry, beginning June 24. It will be broadcast every Sunday at 9.30 a.m.
Giving details on the new programme, titledRasayana, AIR Station Director Chetan Naik told presspersons here Friday the new series is aimed at making science more accessible to common people and students.
Designed in the format of short plays, the programme promises to be listener-friendly and simplify science. These plays will be scripted by eminent science writers like K. V. Ghanashyam, Kollegala Sharma, M.R. Nagaraj and others.
Listeners of the programme will be posed with questions at the end of every episode and 10 people answering correctly will be awarded, he said.
Sumangala Mummigatti, science anchor, AIR Bangalore, said: “The programme focuses on the latest research in chemistry, available research options for students, as well as the everyday applications of chemistry.”
Similar series will be broadcast in 19 languages including Kannada all over the country.
In Karnataka, it will be aired simultaneously in the Bangalore, Mysore, Bhadravati, Dharwad and Gulbarga centres, she added.

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