JAMMU, June 18 -- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Tuesday, visited the project site for national large solar telescope (NLST) near strategic Pangong Lake in Meral area of Ladakh.

The finance minister also took to X and related the information.

"Smt @nsitharaman visits the project site for National Large Solar Telescope (NLST), located near the Pangong lake in Merak, Ladakh at an altitude of around 4200m", she wrote on X.

NLST is a proposed ground based 2-m class optical and near infra-red (IR) observational facility and the site provides significant periods of coronagraphic skies (high transparency), it read further

Dr Annapurni Subramaniam, Director of Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) was also present.

On Sunday,...