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Location | Kolkata, India |
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Owner | Government of India |
Operator | National Council of Science Museums |
Type | Science Centre |
Genre(s) | Educational |
Acreage | 49.6 Acres |
Opened | 1 July 1997 |
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Science City, Kolkata is a science centre and science park in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is currently the largest science centre in the Indian subcontinent, containing a science museum, science park, and auditoriums.[1] The centre was inaugurated in two parts, with the ‘Convention Centre Complex’ being the first on December 21, 1996, followed by the rest on July 1, 1997, by the then-prime-minister Inder Kumar Gujral. On January 10, 2010, the then-prime-minister of India, Manmohan Singh, would attempt to get the second phase of Science City completed.