Abdul Kalam

Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen "A. P. J." Abdul Kalamwas the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. A career scientist turned politician, Kalam was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisationand Indian Space Research Organisationand was intimately involved in India's civilian space program and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 October 1931
CityRameswaram, India
Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
Our nation is facing a major challenge of uplifting 260 million people who are below poverty line and we have to give better life for many millions who are on border line of poverty or just above the poverty line. To meet the needs of one billion people we have the mission of transforming India into a developed nation .... We have identified five areas where India has a core competence on integrated action for agriculture, food processing, education and health care, reliable and quality electric power, surface transport and infrastructure for all parts of the country, information technology and other strategic sectors.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
The school hours for children are the best time for learning, and need the best environment and mission oriented learning with value based educational system.
These changes will have a major impact on the fiscal deficit of states, apart from bringing down the costs of doing business,
The right signal is that technology is going to boost (economic) development of our nation,
Science leads to development of technologies. Availability of technologies leads to products.
While condemning this inhuman act, nations have the collective responsibility to device a mechanism to see that such situation do not occur in future for any citizen of India and also any person belonging to any part of the world.
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My government is committed towards creating such an environment so that the latent potential of our people can blossom and create a new India of our dreams.
Nuclear scientists have always shown the country how nuclear technology can be used for increasing the agricultural produce, medical application and nuclear power generation.