A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A. P. J. 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...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth15 October 1931
CountryIndia
Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
There has to be a global mission of human progress.
I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.