Tag: Amrita-ISRO
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Clicking their way to a brighter future
Kalpetta, Wayanad, 7 Nov 2008 Young Manikanden stares intently at his computer and then clicks the mouse. This twenty-year-old tribal boy is clicking his way to a brighter future. His is taking a Business Office computer course offered by the Village Resource Center in Kalpetta. He has been working as a day laborer, but with…
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Amrita has a major role to play in transforming our society
President of India launches Amrita ISRO satellite network of village resource centers 6 July 2005, Ettimadai, Coimbatore. In a packed colourful function attended by over 4000 people plus hundreds of people at 9 centers, the President of India, His Excellency, Bharat Ratna, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam launched the Amrita ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) joint…
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Science needs direction from spirituality
Amma’s message send from Dallas, USA for the launch of Amrita-ISRO VRC network launch. Amma bows down to everyone, who are the embodiments of pure Love and the Supreme Self. Amma is pleased to learn that the inauguration of the AMRITA ISRO Village Resource Center is being conducted in the esteemed presence of the Honourable…
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Amrita ISRO – VRC centers
The centers below are connected via satellite network at present. The President of India APJ Abdul Kalam will lauch this on 6th july 2005. (News) Tsunami effected areas: Srayikkad: Srayikkad in Alappad Panchayat of Kollam district: Tsunami affected costal place in Kerala where 142 people lost their lives. Located in the rural settings, at a…
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Amrita joins hands with ISRO for rural development
6 July, 2005 at AMRITA University Campus in Coimbatore Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a multi-campus, multi-disciplinary University is collaborating with ISRO, India’s foremost agency for space technology and research, to launch the AMRITA-ISRO VRC Satellite Network, (centers that connect) a comprehensive Satellite-based Rural Transformation Initiative ISRO’s vision of the VRC (Village Resource Center) initiative is to…
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President of India to launch AMRITA-ISRO VRC Network
3 July 2005, Coimbatore. The President of India, His Excellency, Bharat Ratna, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam would launch, “AMRITA- ISRO Village Resource Center (VRC)” an innovative project for rural transformation to be jointly carried by Amrita and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on 6th July 2005 at 9.00 AM at the Coimbatore Campus of Amrita…
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Where there is love there is no distance
Saturday, 15 May 2004 — Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri CampusAmrita University’s Satellite link inaugurated It was a historic moment–both for Amma’s Deemed University and for India. On 15 May 2004, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham became the nation’s first multi-disciplinary educational institution to connect its campuses via satellite. As Dr. S. Banerjee, the director of Bhabha Atomic…