Hyderabad: Telangana  Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday announced Rs 2 lakh cash award to each of 17 students including one from West Godavari in AP,  to meet their expenses to attend the International Space Development  Conference ( ISDC) to be held at Toronto in Canada from May 20 to 24.

The selected students recently met the CM and requested the latter to extend financial assistance to enable them to attend the conference organised by US- based  NASA ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration)