 But within the first year, it also took up an initiative to work on science education at school level in collaboration with anoth), that led to Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program (HSTP)

HSTP can be traced back to 1972 when a group of people consisting of scientists, engineers, educationists and social activists from two voluntary organizations Kishore Bharti and Friends Rural Center decided to implement on ground, an innovative and interactive model of school science teaching which till then remained on papers as part of policy directives.The primary objective of HSTP was to determine the extent to which the existing system of government schooling could accommodate the innovative changes for teaching science.HSTP thus was introduced in village schools to investigate whether it would be feasible to introduce the ‘discovery’ approach to learning science in place of the traditional textbook-centred ‘learning by rote ‘ methodology.