NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DAY 11th May

 

National Technology Day: Why India marks technology day on May 11

• India observes National Technology Day on May 11 to mark the anniversary of the Pokhran nuclear tests of 1998.
• Pokhran nuclear tests were a series of five explosions conducted by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range. 
• Former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, lovingly known as India's 'Missile Man' spearheaded the Pokhran tests.
• The then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared India a nuclear state, making it the sixth country to join the elite 'nuclear club'.
• The five nuclear tests were codenamed Operation Shakti and the whole operation is also known as Pokhran II.