October 15 World Students Day
United Nations Organisation(U.N.O) declared
October 15th, Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam‘s Birthday as the “WORLD STUDENTS DAY“. Its
really a very great honor given to the Indian Personality.
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (born 15
October 1931 in Rameshwaram, Madras Presidency (Tamilnadu) British India), usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam ,was the
11th President of India, serving from 2002 to 2007. During his term as
President, he was popularly known as the People’s President.
Before his term as India’s president, he worked
as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. He is popularly known as the
Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space
rocket technology. In India he is highly respected as a scientist and as an
engineer.
Awards
On April 29, 2009, he became the first Asian to
be bestowed the Hoover Medal, America’s top engineering prize, for his
outstanding contribution to public service.
The citation said that he is being recognised for
making state-of-the-art healthcare available to the common man at affordable
prices, bringing quality medical care to rural areas by establishing a link
between doctors and technocrats, using spin-offs of defence technology to
create state-of-the-art medical equipment and launching telemedicine projects connecting
remote rural-based hospitals to the super-specialty hospital.
A pre-eminent scientist, a gifted engineer, and a
true visionary, he is also a humble humanitarian in every sense of the word, it
added.
On 13 September 2009, he was a recipient of the
International von Kármán Wings Award.
The Government of India has honoured him with the
nation’s highest civilian honours: the Padma Bhushan in 1981; Padma Vibhushan
in 1990; and the Bharat Ratna in 1997 for his work with ISRO & DRDO and his
role as a scientific advisor to the Indian government.
Kalam is the 3d President of India to have been
honoured with a Bharat Ratna before being elected to the highest office, the
other two being Mr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Mr. Zakir Hussain. He is also
the first scientist and first bachelor to occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan.
After his tenure as the president he is now a
visiting guest professor at JSS University, Mysore. He has agreed to deliver a
minimum of four lectures every year.
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