Mandi 2023

Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar (Gujarat), in association with the Vallabh Government College, Mandi (H.P.), organized an exhibition on Plasma, the fourth state of matter during 16-20 October, 2023. This program is part of IPR’s rural scientific outreach activity in various states of India. This is the second outreach activity of IPR to be held in the state of Himachal Pradesh.  The programme consisted of an exhibition on plasma, its applications as well as introductory talks on plasma for visiting students as well as training program for teachers of VGC.

The event was inagurated by Prof. Lalit Malhotra, former Deputy Director, IIT Delhi.

For this exhibition, 48 sudents of BSc Physics and Chemistry from VGC as well as S. P. University, Mandi were trained by IPR team to explain the exhibits to visiting students in their local language.  A training program for teachers on plasma, its applications and fusion was also arranged as part of this event. A fun filled competition for the student volunteers in assembling the TokoToy model was also organized as part of the event.  

Over 2500 students and general public visited the exhibition at the Vallabh Government College. The event was coordinated by Dr. Vikas Thankur and Dr. Jitender Kumar of VGC.