About Breakthrough
The science organization Breakthrough Science Society (BSS) was established in the year 1995 as a platform to create a new science movement in the country. The BSS is a non-profit social welfare organization registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 with the Registration No. S/86180 of 1996-97.
Aims and Objectives
- To cultivate correct, scientific and logical faculty of mind;
- to foster consciousness against unscientific notions, superstitions, astrology, fanaticism, communalism, untouchability, casteism and such other orthodoxy;
- to explain, disseminate and popularize different discoveries and advancements of science;
- to study history and philosophy of science;
- to inculcate ethical values and social responsibility in all fields of scientific endeavour;
- to devise and introduce correct method of teaching and learning science;
- to conduct campaign and movement for a secular, scientific and democratic education policy;
- to mobilize opinion and to move for the introduction of correct and pro-people government policies in regard to the development and application of science and technology for the benefit of the people;
- to build up movements for the preservation and socialization of natural resources and for the correct use of science and technology to ensure sustainable development and protection of environment; and
- to fight against the misuse of science for the destruction of humanity.