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Kalam floors children

Staff Reporter

Photo: Mohd. Arif

Lead India: Former President APJ Kalam surveys Women and Child Welfare Schemes in Sangareddy on Wednesday.

Sangareddy: Thousands of students burst into raptures when former President APJ Abdul Kalam entered the massive pandal erected for the Lead India 2020 mass training camp here at the sports stadium today.

The children, who arrived from almost all parts of the district, waited for him patiently. After going through the stalls depicting various innovative programmes being implemented in the district, Dr. Kalam launched the Lead India campaign and UNICEF’s brochure on Behavioral Change. While lauding the efforts of the district collector B.Venkatesam for encouraging Lead India’s initiative in the district he called upon the students to come together and evolve a mission and adhere to the set goal. to build a nation where the urban and rural divide shrinks to a thin line, where there is equitable distribution of wealth, education to all and an economy where agriculture, service and industrial sectors work in symphony. Dr. Kalam, recalling the efforts of students in Uttaranchal and Pune who under took a programme of ‘Mapping Your Neighbourhood’ sponsored by the department of science and technology wanted them to take up environmental protection as a main theme to work with.

The former President then handed over mementos to all the Sarpanches that won the Nirmal gram purskars.

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