NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY: On the occasion of celebration of National Science Day 2024 with the theme “Indigenous Technologies for Viksit Bharat”, Sikkim State Council of Science and Technology organized a series of district level programme at six districts of Sikkim: Gangtok, Namchi, Soreng, Gyalshing, Pakyong and Mangan. NSD was launched successfully on February 28th 2024 and will be concluded on February 2025 Outreach: there was an outreach of 1800 students and 80 teachers from science background from all the districts of sikkim. Resource Persons: the resource persons were 1. Dr. Ghanashyam Yurembam, Assistant Professor 2. Dr. Deepak Jhajaria, Professor both from CAEPHT, Ranipool. The Programme included: Various Competitions like Science talk, video making competitions, painting competitions, essay writing and quiz completions based on the theme. Outcome: the students are able to better understand this year’s theme through various presentations. Sense of team work and competitiveness developed through these competitions.