Kalam has provided a futuristic road-map for the national advancement
and claims that the Developed India will be a network of prosperous
villages empowered by tele-medicine, tele-education and e-commerce.
Kalam’s Vision India will emerge out of the synergy of combination of
biotechnology, biosciences, e-governance and agriculture sciences and
industrial development. During his presidency, Kalam has entertained
hundreds of members of Parliament and political leaders whom at the
breakfast table he commanded to “work with the zeal born of the
knowledge that the nation is bigger than individual interests and
political parties”.
Our proactive president had air dashed more than 40 times visiting Indian
states, and had flown over to five continents. He is the first President
who addressed the Pan-African Parliament (September 2004) in South Africa,
and offered fifty million dollars grant to African states for providing
seamless and integrated satellite, fiber optics and wireless network
connecting 53 African centers with tele-education, tele-medicine, and
e-services. Under an Indo-Pan African partnership, African universities,
hospitals, and end-locations in rural areas would be linked with satellite
system supplied by India to the African countries. Kalam had paid a
historical visit to the Robben Island prison where Nelson Mandela was
interned for 26 years.
Our nation sometimes appear under threat from fractional politics and
corruption. But the President had assured a stronger and vibrant India by
2020. When we questioned his missile expenditure, Kalam recognized the
reasoning of the critics, and launched PURA (Providing Urban Amenities in
Rural Areas). He worked out synergistic strategy of linking war-science
systems to civic sector reconstruction.in various fields of agriculture,
transport, and industry. He gave call for reforming higher education with
emphasis on research and bridging the urban-rural divides by application
of IT and e-governance.
President Kalam was concerned with looming drinking water crisis in the
country. He researched and like Bhagirath of ancient times, had prepared a
road-map of linking Indian rivers and bringing the waters of Himalaya to
every town and village in the country. Kalam’s plans are efficient and
workable; as he has planned the rivers linking network on the pattern of
the national power grid. And the president had also proposed re-grouping
the country into seven economic-industrial- zones.
