Saturday, February 14, 2009

Talk with former President, Dr A.P.J Kalam


“Dream is not that what you see in sleep, Dream is the thing which does not allow you to sleep” -Dr.Kalam
6th February, 2009 is a tremendous day for me and whole Dharwad District. Whole Hubli people were get vibrated. We had chance to meet him and took snap with him. This made us very happy.

Strength of youth (Dr.Kalam) has inaugurated our foundation, Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at B.V.B College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli. After inauguration referring “Vision 2020”, he said: that “All of us have before us a mission of transforming India into a developed nation. The five key areas where India has a core competence for integrated action are agriculture and food processing, education and healthcare, infrastructure, reliable and quality electricity supply, surface transport and infrastructure for all parts of the country, information and communication technology and self-reliance in critical technologies.” He also motioned that these five areas were inter-related and if they progressed in a coordinated way, it would lead to food, economic and national security. “Of the five areas, the major one is development of infrastructure in rural areas through Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas. The number of PURA clusters for the country has been estimated at 7, 000.
He hoped that DCSE and BVB College would take the initiative of forming a “PURA” complex near Hubli. He mainly focused on creative leadership which is essential for economic development and hoped it would create an atmosphere conducive to produce leaders from among the youths of this region. He mentioned Prof.Wangari Mathai, Ottavo Kapachi and S.Ramanujam’s examples to the youths and entrepreneurs. Kalam referred to the success of “Chandrayaan” of ISRO and elaborated on the hard work behind it.
I am really happy to be a part of Deshpande Foundation because it is very easy to meet wonderful personalities from national and international and talk with them. I am so grateful to Deshpande Foundation for providing such opportunities. And I request my foundation to give this opportunity to some more students in future.

The same day we met some other personalities like
· Narayan Murathi- Infosys
· Sudha Murathi- Infosys
· Manivannan- District Commissioner of Mysore











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