LUCKNOW, Feb. 16 -- Under the Village Scientist Programme of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a modern space laboratory was inaugurated at a school in Mahoba district on Monday. Out of 840 state-run primary and upper primary schools in the district, 40 schools are in the process of getting a state-of-the-art space laboratory.

Nilesh M Desai, scientist and director of Space Applications Centre (SAC), ISRO, Ahmedabad, and Mahoba district magistrate Gazal Bhardwaj inaugurated the first lab at Upper Primary School, Gram Panchayat, Ratouli, Block Kabrai on Monday. The plan is to establish 40 such labs in Mahoba by March 31.

"This rural space lab brings advanced space science learning to the doorstep of government school students in...