Nano science and Nano technology will be the major issues before the 97th Indian National Science Congress (INSC) going to start from Sunday. Though the main these of the 5-day meet of INSC is “Science and Technology Challenges of 21st Century: National Perspective” but Nano science and technology has attracted the Science Congress the most as the two symposia have been concentrated on the topics related to Nano science.

While ‘Engineering Science and Tecnologies: Nano and Macromolecules’ is the theme of symposium of Engineering section on one hand, ‘Spectroscopic Techniques: from astrophysics to Nano-science’ is the theme of symposium for Physical sciences on other hand. There will be 14 symposia in the meet. About 3500 students and 4500 scientists will participate in the INSC.

These include former President and noted scientist A P J Abdul Kalam, eminent scientist M S Swaminathan, Anil Kakodar, C N R Rao, M G K Menon and several others.

There will be a half day meet on science education in universities also. Vice Chancellors of various universities will participate in the meet and discuss the issue. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the Science Congress on Sunday at Kerala University Campus.