New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced Rs.1 crore for the Border Hill District Science Festival and related programmes, alongside plans to link state STEM laboratories with artificial intelligence and establish mobile science labs in every development block. The announcements were made on Friday at the inauguration of the fifth Border Hill District Children's Science Festival in Bageshwar.

The two-day event, organised under the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology (UCOST) at Vivekananda Vidya Mandir Inter College in Mandalsera, has 240 selected young participants from Chamoli, Champawat, Rudraprayag, Bageshwar, Uttarkashi and Pithoragarh.

Dhami said the funding would support the...