Tripura’s Abhinaba Banik – a Class IX student of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Vivek Nagar Amtali, is all set to join the Young Scientist Programme – YUva VIgyani KAryakram (YUVIKA) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Recently on March 28 last, ISRO had released its first list of the selected students for YUVIKA, where Tripura’s Abhinaba Banik had received invitation from ISRO to join the YUVIKA programme, scheduled to begin from May 12 till May 25 next at National Remote Sensing Center (NSRC) in Hyderabad.
YUVIKA is aimed to impart basic knowledge on Space Technology, Space Science and Space Applications to the younger students in emerging trends in space science and technology amongst the youngsters, who are the future building blocks of the nation.
Earlier, Abhinaba Banik was selected for the Cultural Talent Search Scholarship 2021-2022 organized by the Center for Cultural Resource and Training CCRT under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India for the first time and the only one from the state of Tripura in the visual arts and sculpture category.
He embarked on his journey to achieve success in multiple fields, where he had successfully represented his science related research on Covid protocol with state level first prize honors at the 108th Indian National Science Congress held at Nagpur and also at the 30th National Children's Science Congress session held at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
He received India International Student Scientist Award 2020 from Tripura for the first time as a part of VIPNET program under Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, whose commemorative award was presented to him by the then Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath.
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