Kolkata, Jan 7: Close to a hundred students from nine Indian states are participating in the ongoing tiol Science Drama festival here, officials said on Thursday. Iugurated on Thursday, the two-day festival is being organised by the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) on behalf of the tiol Council of Science Museums to impart non-formal scientific education to the youth. Science dramas on topics of social relevance are prepared and ected by school students in a four-tier format — district level, state level, zol level and filly the tiol level, BITM said. “Although the event is held in a competitive format till the zol level, it acquires a festive character at the tiol level where 10 teams, winner and the runners-up from five zones of the country — east, northeast, west, north and south — present their acts, and are felicitated,” it said. The 10 teams this year were selected from Odisha, West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Goa, Maharashtra, Harya, Punjab and Kerala. (IANS)