India, Aug. 11 -- Adarsh Shikshan Mandali (ASM) has added another feather to its cap with the inauguration of a planetarium at the Abhinava Vidyalaya English Medium Primary School. Named Dr Nanasaheb Upasani Planetarium, it is the first in India to feature the Digistar 2025 projection system from Evans and Sutherland, USA, the institute has claimed. The project was made possible through the Vidyalakshmi Foundation, a private trust run by the family of noted educationist and first president of ASM, Upasani.

The inauguration ceremony, held on April 30 this year, was attended by Arvind Paranjape, director of Mumbai's Nehru Planetarium; Suresh Naik, former group director at ISRO; and several other dignitaries from the fields of academics and...