Now 'Kalam Island' to Honour for India's Missile Man ...

[Sai Jai]

Bhubaneswar: One of India's key
missile testing facilities - Wheeler
Island - located off the coast of Odisha,
will be named after President APJ
Abdul Kalam, whose death in July this
year triggered a nationwide outpouring
of grief, the government has said.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
announced the move on Monday
joining a league of state governments
who have taken to honour Dr Kalam,
considered the father of India's missile
programme and a widely loved public
figure.
Mr Patnaik said his father, former chief
minister Biju Patnaik and Dr Kalam,
had ties that went back to the days
when the President was a scientist
with the defence research
organisation. "It was Biju babu who
allotted the historic Wheeler Island to
the Ministry of Defence on the request
of Dr Kalam in 1993. It is a humble
tribute to the People's President from
the people of Odisha."

 

[Sai Jai]

Popularly known as 'Missile Man'
President Kalam led the scientific team
that developed missiles able to carry
India's nuclear warheads. He became a
national folk hero after helping
oversee nuclear tests in 1998 that
solidified India's status as a nuclear
weapons state. India's first atomic test
was in 1974.
President Kalam, who was India's 11th
president from 2002 to 2007, died from
cardiac arrest in Shillong on July 27
and thousands of people including
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended
his funeral in his hometown of
Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu.
Fondly remembered as the 'People's
President', his death was mourned
widely. The government of Delhi
announced it would rename a key road
at the heart of the capital city after
the former President last week while
the Bihar government named an
agriculture college after him.
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[Sai Jai]

:clap:clap:claphs Hats off to odisha govt. Led by mr. Naveen patnaik ji excellent work thank u very much ....