 And I am very happy to be able to talk to you on this very important subject that is immensely useful in our day to day life, that is science and technology communication. Generally science and technology communication is referred to communication of scientific data, scientific concepts, its interpretation to the common man. At the same time science communication has different meanings to different cultures, different socioeconomic societies, different countries and different localities. Like for the western countries science communication is something like making fun, just exploratory effort, something doing for kids, something like that. But science communication for different developing countries like ours has many more meanings. It is something like saving and shaping the lives of the people. In the countries like India, lakhs of people, thousands of people are dying due to lack of petty information, petty diseases. Like from diarrhea lakhs of people are dying in our country, that is curable disease. So only matters that is a simple information that can help save lives of the people. So for science communication is very important for the countries like India for its conducive growth. And we believe that the scientific knowledge as well as the scientific temper if we are able to combine both of them together hold the key for the overall development of the country. For that purpose the National Council for Science and Technology Communication that came into being in 1984. It has been working for two purposes to inculcate the scientific temperament among us the fellow citizens of the country as well as to impart the scientific knowledge to the fellow citizens. So we believe if we are able to synchronize between the scientific temper and the knowledge I think that is very very important for the overall development. Because knowledge is important we can gather knowledge, we can collect knowledge, we can have knowledge, we can create knowledge. But unless we are able to make best use of that knowledge we cannot consider that we are fully developed. For example if we are able to make good highways but it is useless if we are not if we are not aware that how to make best use of these highways. If we don't know how to walk on these highways, how to drive on these highways we will meet the accidents on you. So there comes the role of attitude and I think that is the crux of the subject. The knowledge with attitude, the knowledge with the right kind of attitude that we call the scientific attitude, the analytical attitude. If we are able to take decisions without any bias, without any prejudice, without any pressure, without any greed that means we are having a scientific temperament. But at the same time if we have the right kind of knowledge and we don't have the right kind of attitude I think there is no way of the desired goal. So for this purpose we are using various kinds of mass media because mass media has its deeper reach into the society. Be it great media, electronic media, digital media, folk media where India is very rich, India has a rich tradition in folk media. Like we can use Bihu of Assam for taking the scientific message, taking the message of environment to the common man of the people, common man of the society. We can use Vilu Patu of Tamil Nadu for taking the scientific interpretations to the people for their advantage. We can take advantage of puppetry, puppet shows, street plays and so on. Lot of such heritage, rich heritage is available for our country for communication of science and technology. Even to the nooks and curbs of the country where the traditional media, the available media, the technology cannot reach but our folk media can reach. Apart from that we have interactive media. So all kind of media if we are able to harness them for the purpose of science communication I think that will be very good for, especially for you because you are learning this subject, you are very keen for the subject and I am sure that if you are able to develop right kind of skill, right kind of attitude that success is yours. And lot of opportunities are available nowadays in the area of science and technology communication. As per a survey that we have conducted some years back the science coverage in mass media is something like 3.4 percent that we are trying to enhance up to the level of 10 percent. So how to bridge this gap that is very crucial and we are trying to motivate the media houses, we are trying to motivate the scientific organizations to bridge the gap, scientific organizations can provide the scientific information and the media houses can offer the space and time for science coverage. Then comes the role of a science communicator, then comes the role of the people like you who are a science enthusiast, who have studied science or who has the capacity to understand the scientific jargon to be able to reproduce it in a manner so that it becomes comprehensible. So I think that kind of ability you are going to develop through these courses through these formal and informal education systems and I believe that this science communication is growing in India and India is leading like our like other scientific disciplines India is also leading in science and technology communication and I am happy to say that India has done in the past so many unparallel experiments in the area of science and technology communication, be it science express and exhibition on wheels that is going across the country like science express and the collaborative program with Germany and India has organized Vidyan Jattha that is the unique concept in the world. Vidyan Jattha is a kind of conglomerate that brings together all kind of media for focusing on a particular issue like hygiene, health, sanitation, nutrition, whatever it may be, the high end science as well as the grass root level science. So all kind of scientific concepts, all kind of scientific messages can be carried to the common man and thereby we can empower our common man fellow students to come into the main stream of the development of the country. I wish you all the best on this very occasion. Let us look forward that the future of science communication is very bright and you will be making it more brighter. Thank you.