Overview
- The four-day Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan opened on December 26 at National Sanskrit University with CM N. Chandrababu Naidu and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, drawing participation from ISRO, DRDO and Union minister Jitendra Singh.
- Organisers positioned the conclave as a platform to adapt India’s traditional knowledge to modern needs and to advance scientific discourse in Indian languages.
- Naidu urged parents and teachers to prioritise lessons from the Ramayana and Mahabharata, saying figures like Hanuman and Arjuna surpass Hollywood superheroes as role models.
- He endorsed a three‑child norm for Indian couples, arguing that population growth would give India an advantage over ageing economies.
- Naidu set an ambitious target for quantum computing in Andhra Pradesh, saying a system would operate from Amaravati within six months and be manufactured locally within two years, a claim reported as developing and not yet technically verified.