A zilla parishad school in Solapur district of Maharashtra has set up a 15-feet-high replica of Prithvi missile, India's first indigenous ballistic missile, on the campus to inculcate scientific temperament in the students and expose them to the country's renowned missile programme.
The replica was unveiled on the occasion of National Science Day at the school in Kondhar Chincholi village of Karmala tehsil, Solapur, some 255km from Pune.
“Under the Solapur Zilla Parishad's initiative of Clean School, Beautiful School, we have already implemented a Science Wall project in over 200 zilla parishad schools of the tehsil. As part of the same project, the zill parishad school in Kondhar Chincholi decided to create a prototype of the Prithvi missile,” said Manoj Raut, Block Development Officer (BDO), Karmala tehsil.
As part of the Science Wall project, photographs of famous scientists and inventors have been hung and their birth anniversaries are being celebrated, he said.
Vitthal Iware, a science teacher from the school, said the objective of creating a replica or prototype was to inculcate scientific temper in students and expose them to India's missile programme and technology.
Headmaster Hirankant Shinde said the height of the prototype, made of steel, was 15 feet and it was erected through crowdfunding from the residents of the village.