The Government of Kerala through K-DISC and five academic institutions is implementing the ‘Mazhavillu’ project to instill scientific temper and a different pedagogy for science teaching for the students in Kerala.

A week-long workshop conducted for Mazhavillu animators held at IRTC ended on 1 August 2021. The closing ceremony was inaugurated by M.B. Rajesh, Hon. Speaker of Kerala.

P.V. Unnikrishnan, Member Secretary, K-DISC and Dr. C.P. Narayanan, Chairperson of the project and former Member of Parliament delivered the keynote address. Dr. C. Ramakrishnan, Core Committee Member, Rainbow project presided over the function.

Dr. J. Sundaresan Pillai, Director, IRTC; Vineesh V.T., Research Officer, SCERT; Dr. T.V. Sajeev, Academic Coordinator, Mazhavillu, felicitated over the function. The pilot project is currently run in five Centres in Kerala. IRTC is one of the Centres.