Delhi: Heritage Walk Marks National Science Day on Feb. 28

Around a hundred Delhiites, including school and college students, astronomy enthusiasts and several tourists participated in a heritage walk in Delhi to celebrate National Science Day on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012.

Organized by an NGO Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) in collaboration with the Archeological Survey of India (ASI), the heritage walk took place in Jantar Mantar, the 300-year-old astronomical observatory.

According to Mila Mitra, scientific officer at SPACE, demonstration and discussions on the working of ancient instruments like Samrat Yantra, Misra Yantra, Ram Yantra and Jai Prakash Yantra were held with the participants.

The walk also commemorated 100 years of Delhi as a capital and 150 years of the Archeological Survey of India.

The National Science Day is celebrated Feb 28 across India to commemorate Sir CV Raman's Discovery of the Raman Effect. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for the phenomenon called Raman scattering.