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Planetarium Shows, Sky Watching, and Telescope Demonstrations were organized time to time at various places. Sheo Kumar Pandey, and Nand Kumar Chakradhari have delivered lectures in several schools, colleges and public forums, as a part ofAstronomical Science Popularization and Public Outreach Programmes. ASTRONOMICALACTIVITIESANDPUBLICOUTREACHPROGRAMMES National Workshop on “Zero Shadow Day” was organized at IRC, SoS in Physics and Astrophysics, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University (PRSU), in association with Chhattisgarh Vigyan Sabha, during April 21 - 22, 2018. The programme was supported by Vigyan Prasar, DST, New Delhi, andAstronomical Society of India. The main objective of the workshop was to provide training to participants to organize ZSD at their own place. The participants include 35 trainees from Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, and West Bengal. Along with the trainees, the students of SoS in Physics and Astrophysics, and Centre for Basic Sciences, also participated in the workshop. The resource persons were Samir Dhurde, Bipash Das Gupta, M.L. Nayak, Vishwash Meshram, B.K. Lal, Y.K. Sona, Laxmi Kant Chaware, Nand Kumar Chakradhari, Dinesh Kumar, Nidhi Singh, P.C. Rath, S.R. Azad, Anju Meshram, Sekhar Nag, Arunkant Shukla, and members of Chhattisgarh Vigyan Sabha. ( 258 )