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1979
Solar energy air
A model of a device for regulating room KJP Girls’High School,
conditioning temperature. Mission Compound,
Shillong, Meghalaya.
Wealth from
waste
Displays model of a biogas plant using cowdung,
water hyacinth plants and chicken excreta with
water.
Faith Academy School,
13/15 East Pate1 Nagar,
New Delhi.
Oil flows,
A semi-working model of Ankleshwar oil M.T. Girls’High School,
the nation grows project. Surat.
1980
Multi-purpose
Working model for the conservation of solar St. Anthony School,
heat pipes from energy. Doranda,
solar energy
Ranchi.
Solar distillation
Working model for the conservation of solar Government High School,
plant energy. Majra.
Nutty gas
Power from
sea waves
Shows the preparation of nutty gas from
coconut.
Model of energy generation from tidal
waves.
India
The Bhawanipora Education
Society College, 5-Lala
Lajpat Rai Sarani, Calcutta.
Government High School,
Muthalanda,
Palghat, Kerala.
Solar water heater Use of sun’s heat for heating water and
Government Senior Model
and house heating warming houses. School,
system
Civil Lines, Patiala.
Electricity from Generation of electricity from the soil. Government Higher
soil
Secondary School,
Rajgarh, Beyavara.
Cooking gas
A burner operated on diesel, petrol or
Government Higher
plant kerosene gas. Secondary School,
Ringas (Sikar).
Grain drier
A working model of solar energy based on
grain drier.
C.D. Inter College,
Haldaur (Bijnor).
For the benefit of the school students and teachers, NCERT also produces a booklet, Structure
and Working of Science Models, giving brief descriptions of some selected exhibits more or less in
the form in which the write-ups were presented by the participants.
From time to time, mass media have also made efforts to make the public aware about the
problems relating to energy. For example, All India Radio broadcast two lectures on Bharat me
Urja Srot Aur Uski Sambhavnayen [Sources of Energy in India and its potentialities] by Dr. A.R.
Verma, Director, National Physical Laboratory, in 1978 under the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Lecture
Series. The lecture was delivered in Hindi, the official language of the country. Some of the
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