National Technology Day
National
Technology is being celebrated on May 11 across India.
Key
facts:
- National Technology Day is a very special day for Indian Technology since 1999. The event is marked with great pride as the country achieved a huge technological progression on this particular day.
- It was on this day that the first, indigenous aircraft “Hansa-3” was test flown at Bangalore.
- India also performed successful test firing of the Trishul missile on the same day, May 11 and executed three successful nuclear tests, carried out at Pokhran, in Rajasthan.
- The theme for this year’s Technology Day is ‘Technology enablers of Startup India’.
On this day, the President of India gives National Technology
Award to companies and also to individuals for their great contributions to
science.
