Late Navin Chandarpal honoured for contribution to science

Late presidential Advisor on Science, Technology and Sustainable Development Navin Chandarpal was yesterday honoured by the Ministry of Education for being instrumental in crafting of the National Science and Technology plan.

Speaking at the launching of three-day Science and Technology and Innovation Policy Implementation workshop, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand said that Chandarpal was instrumental not just in shaping the plan, which was recently approved by Cabinet and in the reestablishment of the National Science and Technology Council but his contributions were responsible for the structuring of the government’s approach to Science, Technology and Innovation which will be