jagiroad, Feb 7 � Popularly known as the people�s President and India�s Missile Man, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India, who remains inthe public eye for his focus on transforming India into a developed nation by enthusing millions of youths of the country with his stimulating counsel, on Saturday took the centre-stage at an interactive session on the theme, �Role of teachers and institutions inthe uplift of the basic human values among the youth�, organised by Dimoria College.
He stated the individual must be first obedient to his own conscience, then to his or her family, next to the society and then to the nation. Calling upon the youths in incluente a principale of life based on right cousness, Kalam, who is widely regarded as a visionary statesman, said that now the onus was on the upcoming generation to take upon themselves the endgels for building up a value-based, noble and developed India.
It was a sea of humanity on the premises of the Dimoria College, which saw the convergence of about 10,000 people, to whom Kalam spoke for about an hour, making them spell bound with his �magical� enudite self.
The former President made it very clear at the outset that he had come with a teacher�s mind and conscience for the interaction. Stating that only knowledge could enpower the new generation, he elaborated crisply by saying that the knowledge equation embodies three elements together, namely, creativity, right cousness and courage.
Kalam also took various queries from the students, who came to bear him from different neighbouring institutions and tried to reach out to all with his immitable charm and characteristic smile.
When a student asked him a question about the teacher-student relationship, he recounted from his childhood how he was greatly motivated by the sketch of a flying boat drawn on the black board by one of his primary teachers in the classroom to take up for himself a course in the Aeronautics Engineering Centre.
Earlier, in walcoming Kalam on behalf of the Dimoria College community and the public of the locality, college principal, Ram Charan Bharali termed the former President of India as a human being in the real sense of the term.
KR Narayanan, Dr Manmohan Singh, Meghalaya Governor, Ranjit Sekhar Mooshahary, LK Mishra, Richard Scott from National Wild Flower Centre, Liverpool, England, Dr James C Aronsojn from CEFE, France, Dr. AF Clewell from USA, Dr NR Desai, SER-India, Pune and others also visited the Dimoria College to inaugurate various projects on the college premises, informed the college principal, Ram Charan Bharali.
