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Kalam urges scientists to improve quality of life
President called upon scientists to focus their research on ensuring a better quality of life for human beings.
President APJ Abdul Kalam on Monday called upon scientists to focus their research on ensuring a better quality of life for human beings.
Inaugurating the 11th international workshop on technical and scientific aspects of MST radar at the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory at Gadanki near Tirupati, he also called for a global networked partnership among scientists working on the integrated study of land, atmosphere, ocean and space by using the core competence of different countries.
Kalam asked scientists to use their research for better understanding of the atmosphere and using it for practical applications like weather/climate, monsoon prediction and study of rain.
"The six billion population of the world is faced with many challenges in sustenance and improving the quality of life especially when human kind has been taking much more from the nature than what it is contributing," he said.
More than 70 scientists from 13 countries are participating in the five-day workshop to discuss the use of high-tech equipment in studying the different layers of the atmosphere.
Kalam, a pioneer in missile technology, went around the NARL and interacted with scientists. He noted that based on the recommendations of the last workshop held in Peru, NARL was in the process of establishing the International Network of Tropical Atmospheric Radars (INTAR).
He said the MST radar set up in the beautiful environs of Gadanki had become an important research tool for the Indian and international scientists.
Kalam later inaugurated a radiotherapy centre of the Indian Red Cross Society at Nellore and lauded the services rendered by the society.
He called for taking note of and studying newer knowledge emerging out of research on stem cells from abroad and India. "I hope that the day is not far, when we will be able to get a tailor-made bone marrow out of stem cells to survive for the next 60 years and beyond," he said.
Kalam interacted with students of Peepall Grove School in Chittoor district. Narrating few incidents of his childhood, Kalam said teachers influenced the entire life of individuals and enabled them to chart their future life.
He said his father was his first teacher and he learnt from him that gifts should not be accepted. Narrating an incident, he said his father once beat him up for accepting a gift.
