Former President APJ Abdul Kalam's Patna sojourn

Top: Former President APJ Abdul Kalam addresses the 5th AGBM of the public service ophthalmology initiative “Vision 2020: The Right to Sight-India”in Patna on Jult 16, 2009.
Top 2: Kalam inugurates the seminar.

Top 3 to Bottom: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar presents a memento to felicitate former President APJ Abdul Kalam in Patna on July 16, 2009.

Bihar CM welcomes Kalam at his official residence.

Photos; Aftab Alam Siddiqui

Kalam lauds Nitish Government’s development politics
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam heaped praise on the Nitish Kumar government for practicing development politics, saying it is always good for the people.

“Development politics means the government's concern for its people with all round development of the state”, he remarked after having breakfast meeting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Bihar Chief Minister said the former president had appreciated the state government's decision to inter-link rivers of north Bihar for controlling floods and irrigating the parched lands of south Bihar.

There were also fruitful discussions with Kalam on water management, inter-linking of rivers of Bihar and Nalanda International University, he added.

Former president Kalam is a visitor of the Nalanda International University.

Addressing the 5th AGBM of the public service ophthalmology initiative “Vision 2020: The Right to Sight-India”, Kalam urged the top eye clinics and hospitals of India to open their branches in Bihar in the cause of 67 lakh avoidable blindness patients of Bihar.

He asked Right to Sight organization to take initiative in the matter.” I am prepared to take up the matter with Madurai-based Arvinda Eye Hospitals and ISRO which provides satellite connectivity”, he exhorts.