Dr.

APJ Abdul Kalam

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Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul
Kalam

Birth date
15 October 1931.

Birth place
Rameswaram,
Tamilnadu.
Tamilnadu
Education
St. Joseph’s college, Tiruchirapalli.
Aerospace Engineer
At Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai.
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Scientist
Engineer
Professor
Author
President
Personal life
His personal life was full of struggles and hard
work.
Kalam's father was a Muslim, who owned boats
which he rented out to local fishermen and was a
good friend of Hindu religious leaders and school
teachers at Rameswaram.
Abdul Kalam mentions in his biography that to
support his studies, he started his career as a
newspaper vendor.
Abdul Kalam is the Third President of India to have
been honored with a Bharat Ratna before being
elected to the highest office.
Worked at
• Defense research and development organization.
( D.R.D.O. )
• Indian space research organization.
( I.S.R.O. )
projects
The 5 projects were scheduled to be completed
in a time frame of only 10 years and consisted
of:
Nag: an anti-tank guided missile.
Prithvi: surface-to-surface battlefield missile.
Akash: a swift, medium-range surface-to-air
missile.
Trishul : a quick-reaction surface-to-air
missile with a shorter range.
Agni: an intermediate range ballistic missile,
the mightiest.
Major contributions
He helped in the development of India’s first Satellite Launch Vehicle SLV-3, In 1980
which helped India to become the member of Space Club by injecting Rohini, in Earth’s
nearest orbit.
In 1982, as Director of DRDO, Kalam was entrusted with the Integrated Guided Missile
Development Programme(IGMDP), India's most successful military research task to date.
The programme constituted of 5 major projects for meeting the requirements of the defence
services and for establishing re-entry technology.
He played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India’s Pokhran-II Nuclear
test in 1998.
He served as a principal scientific adviser to the Defense Minister and later Govt of
India (1999-2001) and was responsible for evolving policies, strategies and missions for
many development applications.
As Chairman, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), he
generated the Technology Vision 2020 documents.
Dr. Kalam has served as the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, in the
rank of Cabinet Minister, from November 1999 to November 2001.
Dr. Kalam was also the Chairman, Ex-officio, of the Scientific Advisory Committee to
the Cabinet (SAC-C).
 Political views
Kalam served as the 11th President of India, succeeding K. R. Narayanan. He won the
2002 presidential election with an electoral vote of 922,884, surpassing 107,366 votes
won by Lakshmi Sahgal. He served from 25 July 2002 to 25 July 2007.He was known
as ‘peoples president’ when he retired.
Kalam's belief in the power of technology to resolve society's problems and his
views of these problems as a result of inefficient distribution of resources is
modernistic.
He also sees science and technology as ideology-free areas and emphasizes the
cultivation of scientific temper and entrepreneurial drive.
India's business leaders like the founders of Infosys and Wipro supported him.
His book "India 2020" strongly advocates an action plan to develop India into a
knowledge superpower and into a developed nation by the year 2020.
Kalam is credited with the view that India ought to take a more assertive stance in
international relations.
He regards his work on India's nuclear weapons program as a way to assert India's
 place as a future superpower.
Year of award or
honour Name of award or honour Awarding organisation

2014 1981 Doctor of Science

2012 Doctor of Laws
2011 IEEE Honorary Membership Doctor
2010 of Engineering Honorary Doctorate
2009 Hoover Medal
2009 International von Kármán Wings Award
2009 Doctor of Engineering
2008 King Charles II Medal Honorary
2007 Doctorate of Science Ramanujan
2007 Award
2000 Veer Savarkar Award
1998 Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration
1997 Bharat Ratna
1997 Padma Vibhushan
1990
Pad Edinburgh
ma
Bhus University Simon
han Fraser University
IEEE
University of
Waterloo Oakland
University ASME
Foundation, USA
California Institute of Technology, USA
Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore Royal Society, U.K
University of Wolverhampton, U.K[
Awards Research Centre, Chennai
Government of India
Indian National Congress
Government of
India Government
of India
Government of India
Books by Dr. Kalam
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam personality traits
Honest
Faith in God and his parents
Hard Working
Determined
Possess Perseverance
Passionate for the work
Artistic
Highly spiritual
Loving and caring
Positive thinker
interesting things about Abdul Kalam
He begins his day by reading from the Bhagwad
Gita.
He works for about 18 hours each day.
He plays the 'Rudra Veena'.
He took leave from work just twice, when his
parents died.
He is a self-confessed ‘Ram Bhakt’
Learning from the story
Must try to follow the ‘ASK’ principle.
Must have a passion to do the work that you are in.
Be a visionary.
Must have certain rational principles in life which one should
always abide by.
Be down to earth.
Learn to master DESIRE, EXPECTATIONS and BELIEF.
THANK YOU