Fellow Faculty Members, Students, Ladies
and Gentlemen:
It is my honor and privilege to introduce
our guest speaker for today, His Excellency Dr. Abdul Kalam, former President
of the Republic of India.
As we all know, India is the world’s
second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people and the most populous
democracy in the world. Its long and rich history can be traced back to 5000
years ago. One of the world’s major religions – Buddhism has its origin in
India. Today’s India has emerged as the one of the world’s fastest growing
economies.
During Dr. Kalam’s term of office from 2002
to 2007 as the President of his country, India experienced rapid economic
development and fueled its rise on the world stage. You might think Dr. Kalam
must be a politician, but actually he is an aeronautical engineer by training
and profession. A graduate from the Madras Institute of Technology in 1957, he
was the Project Director and heavily involved in the development of India’s
first indigenous satellite launch vehicle (SLV-3) which successfully injected
the Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit in July 1980, and made India one
of the exclusive members of Space Club. Dr. Kalam also played a key role in the
development of India’s strategic missile systems and its nuclear capability.
As Chairman of Technology Information,
Forecasting and Assessment Council and as an eminent scientist, Dr. Kalam led
the country with the help of 500 experts to arrive at Technology Vision 2020
giving a road map for transforming India from the present developing status to
a developed nation. In order to achieve its objective, he took a mission to
ignite the young minds for national development by meeting school students across
the country. During the last decade, Dr. Kalam has addressed over five million
youth below the age of 17 and inspired them to become an active participant of
India Vision 2020.
As a distinguished scientist, Dr. Kalam was
awarded with the “King Charles-II Medal” for Science and Technology in October
2007 and the “Woodrow Wilson Award” in 2008. The Royal Academy of Engineering,
London conferred on him the “International Medal” in June 2009.
I recognize that this is a rare and extremely
valuable opportunity to hear Dr. Kalam’s speech in person. Now please join me
in welcoming our guest speaker His Excellency Dr. Abdul Kalam
Closing remark:
We have just listened to Dr. Kalam’s
powerful and thought provoking speech on the critical role technology can play
and impact on the economic development in a country. His remarks inspire and
encourage us to look at economic development from a different perspective. It
is truly inspiring and visionary.
On behalf of all the audience, I would like
to express our heartfelt and sincere thanks to Your Excellency for sharing your
vision and knowledge.
Dr. Kalam is about to leave Taiwan this
afternoon. We wish him a very pleasant journey back to India. Thanks! Your
Excellency!
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, once
again I want to state that we are all most grateful to the speaker on this
stage. We thank you for being with us this afternoon - it’s been a great
pleasure.
Thank You Very Much!
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