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Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium
Thesis Report V-SPARC VIT
Area: 1216.79 m²
Year: 1989
Building Engineer/Architect: Commissioned by Bangalore City Corporation
Fig.29.Jawarhalal nehru planetarium view
The Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium (JNP) is a planetarium located in Bangalore, India. It was
inaugurated in 1989 and is named after Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. Prof.
C V Vishveshwara is the founder director of the institute
The JNP is managed by the Bangalore Association for Science Education (BASE), a non-profit
organization dedicated to science popularization and non-formal science education.
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