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Pune: The armed forces can play a rolein managing the water resources ofthe country, former president APJ Ab-dul Kalam said here on Wednesday.

Kalam was speaking at the Collegeof Military Engineering (CME) duringthe centenary course celebrations. Pre-senting a vision for the future role ofthe CME, Kalam said, “Besides theirusual roles, the CME should plan andmanage projects such as ‘interconnec-tion of river bodies’. Bodies like theCME can also play a role in waterwaysand river management, including floodand drought management.”

Sharing his experience at the Gat-ton College of Lexington in Kentucky,US (where he went for a teaching as-signment in April 2010) Kalam saidsuch a role was carved out for the Corpsof Engineers by then President GeorgeWashington. “It has implemented 200flood protection projects and manages372 billion cubic metres of water.”

“There is no reason why we shouldnot apply modern navigation man-agement to control floods in the Kosiand Brahmaputra rivers, like they doin flood control of the Mississippi. Ifwe can save even half of the 1,500 bil-lion cubic metres of water that flowsinto the sea, our country’s water prob-lem can be solved.”

Kalam also said that more innova-tions should be promoted at variousresearch levels in the country, includ-ing the armed forces. “System design,system integration and system man-agement principles in an interdisci-plinary environment should be learnedand adopted by the forces. You will beremembered, not by your rank, but by

what you do in terms of lightening theload of soldiers, developing new strat-egy for weapon deployment, designingnew communication platforms, de-signing tools for nuclear warfare, re-search in controlling terrorism, de-veloping smart water base for stoppingflood and becoming the first militaryastronaut to walk on Mars,” he said.

Earlier on Tuesday, Kalam addressednewly inducted scientists of the De-fence Institute of Advanced Technolo-gy (DIAT) at the institute. Irrespectiveof their specialisation, young scientistsshould pursue integrated learning and

follow a multiple-discipline approachto projects, which will better place themto develop new products, take them tonew levels of innovation and preparethem for higher organisational re-sponsibilities, Kalam said.

Kalam said young scientists haveto work in an environment wherethere are several members involvedin research work, complete with mul-ti-facets of engineering and science.Stressing the importance of learningintegrated system design, Kalam saidresearch by scientists may even beshared with their counterparts in oth-

er friendly countries to build a com-mon product mutually beneficial tothe participating nations.

DIAT vice-chancellor L M Patnaikgave the introductory address at theprogramme and among those presentwere chief controller research and de-velopment K D Nayak and Amarjits-ingh, dean, DIAT.

Observing that inventions and dis-coveries come from creative individu-als who constantly work and imaginethe outcome in their mind, Kalam saidthat higher the number of creativeminds in the country better are the in-novations. He said that students shouldnot neglect any aspect of their disci-pline and there should be no iron cur-tains between streams of engineeringand science. Education — which is thefoundation of technology, research anddevelopment — should become bor-derless, he added.

During his address, Kalam narrat-ed milestones that have made him ex-tremely happy — the satellite launchvehicle (SLV-3) in July 1980, India be-coming a nuclear weapon state in May1998, Agni II missile system hitting thetarget in April 1999, the government’sannouncement of a vision statementin 1996 that India will become a devel-oped nation by 2020.

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Traffic issues need solutionslike metro rail, says Kalam

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Pune: At a time when the city is de-bating the need for mass transportsystems, former president APJ Ab-dul Kalam said here on Wednesdaythat the country needed solutions likemetro rail in cities that are facingproblems like overcrowding and traf-fic issues.

Kalam made a mention of thiswhile listing out the vast opportuni-ties that he foresees in a range of ar-eas such as urban and rural infra-structure, agriculture, railways andaircraft building, among others.

Kalam was delivering a speech on‘Realising Vision 2020 through Pro-vision of Urban Amenities in RuralAreas (PURA)’ at the launch of ‘Al-paviram’, a discussion forum, at theSymbiosis Institute of Business Man-

agement. The forum plans to engageeminent personalities from differentwalks of life to deliver speeches atregular intervals on how to realiseIndia’s Vision 2020.

During a 30-minute speech, Kalamtouched upon a range of issues likecombating economic turbulencethrough global enterprise; conver-gence of technologies; current am-bience of the Indian economy; a dis-tinct profile of the nation envisagedin 2020; a sector-wise, industry-wiseanalysis of India’s future and sus-tainable development through PURA.

“We are witnessing the emergenceof a new world order, where tech-nology has made the world come to-

gether as never before,” said Kalam,while citing the multi-diverse cultureof work that prevails in Indian in-formation technology firms provid-ing solutions to nations worldwide.

He said, “We have to see how corecompetency of two nations or multi-ple nations can work togetherthrough sharing of experience, wis-dom and knowledge for designing anddeveloping cost-effective products.”

Kalam said, “The Indian economywas able to withstand the global eco-nomic slowdown mainly because theliberalisation process in the countryhad its checks and balances consis-tent with India’s social needs. Simi-larly, India’s banking system remains

conservative and the common Indi-an psyche remains savings-orientedand living within the means.”

“The India as visualised 10 yearsfrom now will be a nation where ru-ral-urban divide is reduced to a thinline, where distribution of power andwater will be equitable, where edu-cation with value systems is not de-nied to any individual and the gov-ernment is responsive and corrup-tion free,” he said. This can beachieved through five main areas,identified as: agriculture and agri-culture food processing; educationand healthcare; information and com-munication technology; surfacetransport and power; and self-re-liance in critical technologies, headded.

Kalam went on to list the oppor-tunities that exist for young Indiansin a range of areas including infra-structure, power, sustainable devel-opment and even in politics. ThePURA movement has significant rolein this process and youngsters havea lot to contribute through it forbuilding a strong and self-reliant na-tion, he added.

‘Forces should manage water resources’Former Prez Says Innovations Must Be Promoted At Various Research Levels

‘Education canchange students intoenlightened citizens’

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Pune: Former President of In-dia A P J Abdul Kalam onWednesday said that the fel-lows of the Teach for Indiamovement have the potentialto become ambassadors forchange and address the exist-ing educational inequities inthe country.

Kalam was addressing thefellows of the Teach for Indiamovement at Dastur schoolhere to mark the completion ofa year of the movement, as wellas the induction of the secondbatch of fellows.

Lauding the work accom-plished by the fellows over oneyear, Kalam said that when heexamined the profile of teach-ers in the movement, he couldsee a definite love for teachingand a will to make a difference.“I am a teacher too, and Istrongly believe that educationcan transform students into en-lightened citizens,” he said.“When you enter a classroom,you have to have an armour ofpreparation that will help im-part the best to your students.”

Kalam went on to spell outa three-pronged ‘knowledgeequation’ for teachers to bearin mind — creativity plusrighteousness in the heart pluscourage. Elaborating on eachof these, he said, “Creativity,for starters, leads to learning,which leads to thinking andknowledge. Similarly, whenthere is righteousness in theheart, there is beauty in char-acter, which is logically fol-lowed by harmony in thehome, order in the nation andpeace in the world. Simulta-neously, you need to impartcourage in order to think dif-ferently, invent, travel towardsthe unexplored, combat prob-lems and succeed.”

He asked the TFI fellows torepeat after him that teachingwould be their soul. He toldthem to always bear in mindthat they were responsible forshaping youth, whom he de-scribed as the most powerfulresource of the nation. He

urged the fellows to treat allstudents equally and said theirlives would be a message totheir students.

Members of the AkankshaFoundation were present onthe occasion.

Teach For India is a nation-wide movement that aims atnarrowing the educational gapby placing the country’s mostoutstanding college graduatesand young professionals, of allacademic majors and careers,in low-income schools to teachfor two years. The mission isto build a movement of lead-ers who will eliminate in-equity in education.

The first batch of 87 fellowsbegan teaching in June 2009,and TFI has received close to4,000 applications for its secondbatch of 150 fellows, who willstart teaching in June 2010. Themovement is focused on a com-

mon vision: ‘One day, all chil-dren will have access to excel-lent education’.

The movement envisagesthat at the end of the two-yearstint, the young teachers whowould go back to their respec-tive fields would be personallyacquainted with and sensitizedto the problems confronting ed-ucation, thereby graduallybringing about a larger sys-temic change in the way edu-cation is perceived.

Those interested in the 2011Fellowship, or in getting in-volved with the organizationin other ways, can learn moreat teachforindia.org. The dead-line for applications for TFI fel-lows (2011) is October 10, 2010.

Teach for India Fellows —Daniel Lobo, Sana Gabula andDhiran Achtani — stressedtheir sense of fulfilment inreaching out to young students.

Abdul Kalam at the Teach for India programme on Wednesday

Abdul Kalam looks on as CME commandant Lt Gen U S P Sinha unveils a model ofthe institute during the centenary course celebrations on Wednesday. CME deputycommandant Maj Gen Rajeev Datt can also be seen

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Mishap on e-way halts trafficTIMES NEWS NETWORK

Pune: Traffic on the Pune-Mumbai expressway was affectedfor over 30 minutes after a container truck overturned near atunnel in the ghat section at Khandala on Wednesday evening.

Highway police personnel said cranes were rushed to shiftthe vehicle. The incident took place around 7.30 pm.

After the accident, movement of vehicles from Mumbai toPune slowed down, the police control room said. According tothe expressway control room, the overturned truck had blockedtraffic for a while. Vehicles were moving slowly as work onshifting the truck was in progress.

Pune: The Pune MahanagarParivahan Mahamandal Lim-ited (PMPML) has decided toissue free travel passes to stu-dents between standards V andX staying within the PuneMunicipal Corporation limits.

The PMPML had deferredthe scheme waiting first to as-certain whether the PMC andthe Pimpri Chinchwad Mu-

nicipal Corporation (PCMC)had made any budgetary pro-visions to fund the free passscheme. The PMPML said thedecision was made on Wednes-day. Incidentally, there is nodecision yet on starting thescheme for students living inPimpri-Chinchwad, since thePCMC has sent no communi-cation in this regard. TNN

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The India as visualised 10 years from now will bea nation where rural-urban divide is reduced to athin line, where distribution of power and waterwill be equitable, where education with valuesystems is not denied to any individual and thegovernment is responsive and corruption-free

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