LUCKNOW, Feb. 15 -- A state-of-the-art space laboratory will be inaugurated on Monday at a government school in Ratauli Gram Panchayat, Mahoba district, marking the launch of an ambitious program to bring advanced science education to rural students.

The Shri Nilesh M Desai Space Lab is the first of 40 Rural Space Labs planned across government schools in Mahoba under the Village Vaigyanik Karyakram, driven by ISRO Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad.

The project, implemented in collaboration with ISRO Space Applications Centre (SAC-Ahmedabad) under the Village Vaigyanik Karyakram, will directly benefit more than 10,000 government school students and over 500 teachers, according to district magistrate Gazal Bharadwaj.

The space labs w...