Mangalore: Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada A. B. Ibrahim said, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will inaugurate the State’s second regional science centre at Pilikula in the outskirts of the city on October 1.

Mr. Siddaramaiah would arrive at Mangalore International Airport at 10 a.m. on Wednesday and proceed to Pilikula where he will dedicate the centre to the nation at 10.30 a.m. The Chief Minister will return to Bangalore later at 1.35 p.m.

About 800 teachers and 500 students would participate in the inaugural session, he said in a release.

The centre has been built at an estimated cost of Rs. 11.5 crores with funds from both the Union and State government.

Spread over 10 acres and built by the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Kolkatta it would organise a series of programmes to infuse scientific temper among people, teachers and students. It has been named as Mangalore Pilikula Regional Science Centre.

The first regional science centre of the State was opened at Dharwad in 2012. It had been built at an estimated cost of Rs. 10.5 crore. The third regional science centre would come up in Mysore at an estimated cost of Rs. 14.5 crore.

The centre at Pilikula has a virtual laboratory, library, computer room, conference hall, meeting hall, exhibition hall, fun science section, sports and games facilities.

The fun science section has models like illusion with ring, musical tubes, spinning erasor, floating ball, rising bubbles, curie point, infinity well and the like.