"Vijnana Bhavana", No. 24/2 & 24/3, 21 Main Road, Banashankari II Stage,
Bengaluru - 560070, Karnataka State, INDIA
Telephone : +91 080 26718939, Telefax: +91 080 26718959,
E-mail : krvp.info@gmail.com

• Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishat is the recipient of the inaugural award for best institutional efforts to popularize science and technology by the National Council for Science & Technology Communication, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

• The following members of KRVP have been conferred with national awards for best individual efforts in popularizing Science & Technology instituted by the National Council for Science & Technology Communication, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.

1. Prof. D.R. Baluragi 1991
2. Prof. J.R. Lakshmana Rao 1994
3. Prof. Adyanadka Krishna Bhat 1996
4. Prof. M.A. Sethu Rao 1999
5. Dr. C.R. Chandrashekar 2002
6. Sri. H.R. Krishnamurthy 2002
7. Smt. Sreemathi Hariprasad 2007
8. Smt. Sumangala Mummigatti 2007

• Balavijnana - a monthly magazine has been publishing since 1979. It reaches 28,000 students of various schools of Karnataka. This is known to be the best science magazine in regional language.

• KRVP has published 100 and more popular science books on various arena of science. Most of them have been reprinted on public demand. This has established a new record in the Kannada publication. It is also very significant to state that these publications have established a pioneering effort in building and also communicating popular science literature in Kannada.

• Formerly Nadoja and Padmabhushan Dr. H. Narasimhaiah and Dr. S.J. Nagalotimath have served as Chief Patrons of Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishat and currently Padmavibhushan Dr. C.N.R. Rao have been serving as Chief Patron of this prestigious institution. Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishat is a nodal agency for Karnataka State and has convened National level Children Science Congress (NCSC) in 2005 at Mysore.

• NCSC provides the children of age group 10-17, from all over the country. A unique opportunity to discover and recognise their scientific temperament & use their knowledge to make their dreams come true. Annual science congress being held where a through scrutiny at districts and state levels about 500 children in this science congress. The congress will provide a forum to the children to pursue their natural curiosity and to quench their thirst of creativity and also helps to stimulate scientific temperament and learn the scientific methodology for observation, collection of data, experiment, analysis and then arriving at conclusion.

• KRVP is the Regional Resource agency for Karnataka State for 'National Environment Awareness Campaign a programme which is dedicated to bring awareness about the environment to the general public, NGO's, students, teachers, educational institutions, governmental organisations etc., a programme funded by Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi.

• KRVP has conducted 500 and more teacher's training workshops for high school teachers on low cost teaching aids.
  15 National level telescope making workshops have been conducted & about 150 telescopes have been distributed freely for science activists.

• 24 popular science writer's workshop have been conducted, training have been provided to young budding science writers on popular science literature, its presentation, style of writing, art of translation, the problems related to popular science writing etc.