The National Science and Technology Museum has taken the initiative of exhibiting telescopes in remote areas outside the capital to widen the public knowledge about space science and increase the attraction of space science in the minds of students.
Under this program, students were given the opportunity to observe space through telescope on October 14 in Lama Upazila of Bandarban and on October 19 and 20 in Panchagarh. Thousands of students and visitors participated in these two programs.
It attracted a huge response from the local people. It is impossible for ordinary people to directly observe planets or stars in space. The modern powerful telescope of the National Science and Technology Museum has been used in this activity. It gives the feeling of space travel to the people especially to the students living at the remote areas.
In this context, Director General of National Science and Technology Museum, Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, said, “This initiative has been taken to reach the remote areas of the country in disseminating the space knowledge with the help of telescope technology and to reach the capability of space technology including science and technology in Bangladesh. The opportunity to practice space knowledge by reading books is very limited; in that case, having an unprecedented opportunity to see Saturn 193.93 million miles away and Jupiter 600 million miles away in the clear sky; by which, people will know about the perfect management of the universe created by the Greatest Creator Allah, will deepen the faith on Allah, the Creator and will give people a fair idea about the immense mysteries of the world. This program will be spread all over Bangladesh, gradually. Not only for gaining knowledge, freeing the young generation from various social crimes including drug addiction, mobile addiction and directing them towards knowledge is one of the objectives of this program.”