 The 17th Congress of the All India People Science Network was held from June 6 to June 9 in the North Indian city of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. The conference was inaugurated by KK Shelja, former Health Minister of the Indian state of Kerala. She was crucially in guiding the state's effective response to the COVID-19 outbreak and her contributions were recognized globally. The conference began with the reading of the preamble of the Indian constitution. Speakers of the conference emphasized that the constitution calls for each citizen to develop scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry as a fundamental duty to the country. In the past four days, more than 600 people from all over the country gathered outside of Madhya Pradesh. More than 600 delegates from Madhya Pradesh and 800 people from all over the country. In this conference, we discussed nine themes. Nine themes were education, health, scientific temper, agriculture, livelihoods, gender injustice. This was discussed on nine themes. The All India People Science Network is a network of over 40 people's science organizations spread across the country. These organizations run various campaigns for science popularization and science communication as well as fighting superstitious and unscientific beliefs. In any moment, you have to have a science as a basis. Maybe it is social science or natural science. Because the change of the society for ending the sorrows of people from the angle of gender, class, caste and changing the mode of production. This kind of a thing is very important to have a scientific basis. For example, if you want to have something to do with agrarian section, you have to know about behavioral water, rule of water. You have to know about what is soil, what is the cultivation in the soil, what is organic farming. All these are the natural sciences issues. And without that, you cannot say whether damage is really necessary, which damage should be rejected, which proposal of the government in relation to the so-called development should be accepted or rejected. My relationship with the People Science Movement, especially with the Maharajas, started when we started the People's Movement in North North region. They were trying to find answers for the why droughts take place, what could be the answers for drought eradication, drought proofing and things. So, we did a science festival on what was called the Vidyan Yathur-Bakur Doctor Farmers. That brought together scientists, technologists and people who have been experimenting with different ecotheism. They gave us a perspective how to take this whole drought eradication movement forward. So, there was an interesting alliance between people, political activists and scientists and technologists to find new pathways and things. And now it is more important because decisions are by the government over the years are taken not on the basis of the betterment of people, not on the basis of the scientific temper, not on the basis of science for the people. But decisions are taken on the basis of requirements of the corporates and whether or not nature gets affected, whether or not human life is getting devastated, it is not considered by decision making. In the 1990s, AIPSN successfully led adult literacy campaigns in India. The success of the literacy movements significantly increased the reach of the organization. Building on the massive mobilization achieved through the total literacy programs, AIPSN now also carries out activities related to continuing education, school education, women's empowerment, credit cooperative movements, rural micro-enterprises, etc. The work of teaching children was done in lockdown in Khed Khadhyan and we were also involved in it. We used to teach 42 children. If they are from Dehaat, they teach only their own language. We have a society in which there are 2,500 women. There are 3,000 women who are in the small fields of the village. They are the products that are made of the leaves, the seeds, the herbs, the herbs, all the things are used by the hands. All the things are made of this, the seeds are also used. We have made papads, mushrooms, almonds, etc. The whole thing is that it is made out of machines, without chemicals, which is nothing but our work. In the meantime, here in Jharkhand, women have a lot of work to do. The conference concluded with a reminder that the project being led by the AIPSN is a deeply political one. It calls for an end to elite exploitation of all sorts and a debate on all traditions that do not stand the test of evidence and logic. The conference also reminded the scientific community to not remain restricted to scientific laboratories and come on the streets to reclaim people's science in communities in opposition to exploitative tendencies. Our experience is that all the movements which we are going with the people, with the labourers, with the workers, with the farmers, all these movements are and can become successful if this kind of movement based on science is there along with other movements. How is it important that these such congresses be organized? I was today able to participate in the session on gender justice and social justice. There has been this conversation like women in science, women in mathematics, women in engineering, what does that mean? That women had not been there and therefore there was a question like where are the women? But that is women have not been there for numerous reasons and the answers to all those reasons must be brought up and deliberated whether they were valid or not for them to be kept away from the spaces. We need to work under the great leadership of the scientific tempo. We need to do that today. We will take people to the beach so that we can make a scientific tempo society. The other policy government, we are talking about the nine themes that we are talking about. In that policy, the way in which there are no policies in the people's side, we will talk about that policy and we will also discuss it. And the second thing is that we are not only discussing this table, but also discussing the policies that are already being done. What can be the future of these issues? What will be the future direction? After that, we will discuss the theme of the two-day discussion of this Congress. We will try to do that recommendation in the coming two years.