AGARTALA, May 12 (TIWN): Tripura Education Minister Tapan Chakroborty on Monday felicitated two nominated students by Govt. of India for State Best during the National Science Fair 2013 and 14 respectively.

However in that score the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India has recently nominated both the students – Anubrata Nath, student of Agartala Shishu Bihar School and Bishu Nayek, a student of Simna Akhaliacherra High School to visit Japan on may 16, 2015 under SAKURA exchange programme in science.

Under “Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research” (INSPIRE) being implemented in the state through SCERT science models of both the students were selected as the state best.

However, Promoting science and technology is a key engine to realize a bright future of Asia and it is vitally important to enhance the exchange of Japanese and Asian youths who will play a crucial role in the field of science and technology.

Based on this concept, “Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science” (SAKURA Exchange Program in Science) is the program for enhancing exchanges between Asia and Japan of the youths who will play a crucial role in the future field of science and technology through the close collaboration of industry-academia-government by facilitating short-term visits of competent Asian youths to Japan.

This program aims at raising the interest of Asian youths toward the leading Japanese science and technologies at Japanese universities, research institutions and private companies.

The students from Tripura were nominated by the central govt. and assigned their name in the SAKURA Exchange programme.