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Agra Science Park Foundation will showcase Digital India with AI, robotics and cybersecurity

Agra, Nov 6 (UNI) After Lucknow and Gorakhpur, now a state-of-the-art Science Park and Planetarium will be set up in the Taj city of Agra.
In a grand ceremony held behind the ACP Loha Mandi office, in front of the Kothi Meena Bazaar grounds, Uttar Pradesh Government's Science and Technology Minister Anil Kumar, Higher Education Minister Yogendra Upadhyay, and union Minister of State (MP) Prof. S.P. Singh Baghel jointly laid the foundation stone here today.During the ceremony, the foundation stone for the Science Park and Planetarium, to be built at a cost of Rs39.62 crore, was laid with the chanting of Vedic mantras and a bhoomi pujan (groundbreaking ceremony) and havan (fire ritual). The Science park will be completed within 18 months time.
State Science and Technology Minister Anil Kumar stated that the Agra Science Park will be the state's third state-of-the-art facility, where students and the public will be exposed to modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and cybersecurity.
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