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   Promote Science Education to Achieve Desired Development 

The promotion of science education is a must for any country to achieve the desired goal of self-sufficiency in every field. After India got independence, the government emphasized the need of promoting science education and setting up of industries in the country for achieving all round developments. As far as the promotion of science education is concerned, it must start from the primary classes in the school itself. There is also the need of developing scientific temper in the country.

Towards promoting Science education and developing scientific temper in the country, a Delhi-based organization in the field of Education, IT and Career Counseling has launched scholarship examinations for engineering and medical aspirants. It has been making a symbolic contribution to the spread of science education them. The name of examinations is AIEESE (Primary) and AIEESE (Secondary) for engineering aspirants and AIPMST (Primary) and AIPMST (Secondary) for medical aspirants. It has been organizing this scholarship examination on the national level for the last 7 years.

AIEESE and AIPMST are very popular among the science students of class 12^th standard. Most of the engineering and medical aspirants, who have qualified these examinations, have been greatly benefited. These scholarship examinations have proved to be very beneficial for engineering and medical aspirants, especially those who are meritorious and deserving but come from the economically weak background. 

These two are merit-based examinations. Scholarship for pursuing engineering and medical education is given only to those students who qualify them. To know in detail about these two examinations, please login www.aieeseprimary.co.in, www.aieesesecondary.co.in, www.aipmstprimary.co.in, www.aipmstsecondary.co.in 

To promote science from the school education, the government has a major role to play. It must make educational policy with priority on science education. It must also be understood that without science, no doctor, engineer, scientist, and the pharmacist could be produced in the country. Without science, there can be no development in the country. So, science is the backbone of education. Science also promotes rationalization, liberalism, modernity and it puts everything to reason. It removes superstitions from the society and takes it on the path of reason and knowledge.

Science has two aspects – constructive and destructive- it depends on how you use it. Nuclear power is essential for the development of any country but the nuclear bomb is the most destructive. So, it matters most to what purpose the science is used. It can destroy and create anything. All things of comforts in life are attributed to science. All discoveries and inventions are of great use to the mankind.  Looking at the evolution of school science in India, a tendency of including more and more content — overwhelmingly in the form of factual information — in the syllabus has been experienced. 

Due to the apathy of the successive government, while formulating its education policy, a great miss is experienced by not attaching any special importance to the study of science in schools. To teach science well, laboratories and demonstrators are required in schools and colleges. Science is not a subject to get it by heart. It demands practical classes to do experiments in Laboratories. There has been an acute shortage of well-equipped laboratories for science classes in schools.

 In the absence of well-equipped laboratories, there are no practical classes in most of the schools. Only a few elite private schools in the country are equipped with all laboratories requirements and practical classes are held there regularly.  With no practical classes in schools, the factual information that dominates the syllabi is not supported by any kind of activity, which can make it plausible or even comprehensible. Students, therefore, have no option but to memorize the facts. The consequence of this is that students find science not only difficult but also boring. Because of this, students don’t want to opt for science at the Class XII level.

In the last 20 years, it has been experienced that the successive government has paid less attention to science education in schools at the cost of universalization of elementary education, which has been treated as a national goal.  In the post-independence period, science education in schools has not been taught with the aim of producing scientists. Though India has produced world famous scientists, most of them belong to pre-independence period.  

To teach and promote science from school level itself, it is most necessary to create an atmosphere of scientific temper. School and college students can imbibe inspiration from the world fame Indian scientists who have made the country proud of their innovations and discoveries.