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Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan
The Government of India has launched a new program, Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan or VVM, which is..

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The Government of India has launched a new program, Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan or VVM, which is India's first mega-science experiment. The program is an initiative of Vijnana Bharti in partnership with Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous organization under DST (Department of Science & Technology) and NCERT.

The program is a national-level program to popularize science among class 6th to class 12th students and to identify the 'bright minds with a scientific aptitude'.

The time duration for the exam will be 01 hour and the examination will be conducted in English, Hindi, and major regional languages such as Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Assamese and Malayalam. The exam will be conducted separately for the Junior group and Senior group.

The candidates can register in online mode from the official website: vvm.org.in.

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