Contribution of Meghnad Saha to the Science Education

Dr. Meghnad Saha was a renowned astrophysicist from India. He was a scientist and actively contributed to spreading and inspiring science education in India. He organised an active school of research in Calcutta and Allahabad. He founded the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Calcutta and the laboratories of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. He took the keenest interest in national planning, especially science and industry. The present study will try to trace the contribution of Meghnad Saha to sustainable development through science education in India. Dr. Meghnad Saha realised that science education is necessary for national development. To achieve rapid national growth sustainably and to attach science to development planning, he joined active politics in 1952. Meghnad Saha was tirelessly fighting for the adoption of scientific and objective planning for the development of the country, particularly in the development of industrial infrastructure, agriculture, and education, which are essential to the attainment of self-reliance¿that time needed a bold, scientific mind like Meghnad Saha.