The total outlay proposed for the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2002-2007) for the Periyar Science and Technology Centre and B. M. Birla Planetarium was 6.4 million, including 2.6 million for the X-Y table system at the planetarium [REF].
The planetarium building features a circumferential hall of fame around the main theatre with portraits and statues of scientists and photographs and models of various heavenly bodies, celestial phenomena and space missions.