Under Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) activity, as per the guidelines of NCERT, New Delhi Rashtriya Avishkar Saptah (14th – 21st October, 2019) was celebrated. Under this program, students were asked to perform following four experiments on the theme “Water Quality Assessment and Water Conservation”.
1. Foaming capacity of Water
2. Testing the pH of Water
3. Testing total Alkalinity of Water
4. Testing Total Dissolved Solids in Water.
On 11th October 2019, Prof. J.D. Ekhe organized demonstrations of all four experiments for school teachers in Chemistry Department Laboratory, VNIT.
On 15th October 2019 i,e late Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s birth anniversary, NMC Walmikinagar School celebrated this event in which total 22 students of std. 9th & 10th participated. RAA team of VNIT faculty ( Dr P S Kulkarni : Nodal Officer, Dr. (Mrs.) Anuradha Deshpande : Co-nodal Officer, Prof. Rupesh Gedam and Prof. J.D. Ekhe) and staff members of Pradeshik Vidya Pradhikaran (State Institute of Science Education), Nagpur were prominently present.