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The Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, and the president of Pakistan's Tehrik-e-Insaaf party, Imran Khan, at the India Today conclave in New Delhi on Sunday. — Photo: Rajeev Bhatt
Speaking at the India Today Conclave here, Dr. Kalam said: "We should not allow any religion or any individual fanatic to endanger our nation because the nation is more important that any individual or party or religion". Stating that no other nation had a heritage like that of India, he said the Indian minds absorbed the best of cultures from successive invasions and "whenever there was a crisis, whenever there was a problem, the Indian leadership blossomed to overcome it". "The nation needs young leaders who can command the transformation of India into a developed nation embedded with knowledge from now to 20 more years," Dr. Kalam said. Quoting the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's Independence Day speech last year that India would become a developed nation by 2020, the President explained the plan for the same through video-clippings at a hotel here. "The higher the proportion of creative leaders in a nation, the better the potential of success of visions like that of a developed India," he said. The key areas of agriculture and food processing, education and healthcare, infrastructure development, information and communication technology and critical technologies and strategic industries had been identified for an integrated action to realise the goal of a developed India by 2020. These areas were closely inter-related and lead to national, food and economic security, Dr. Kalam said. Lauding the efforts on networking rivers, Dr. Kalam said besides other benefits, networking would lead to enhancement of environment and national connectivity. Emphasising the importance of education, he said the student community could take up the task of wiping out illiteracy in their area during their holidays and teachers and parents could assist them in the task.
Media had to become a partner and a positive critic in national development. "We have to celebrate our success. Nation is bigger than individuals and politics," Dr. Kalam said.
Crisis of governance, says Modi
Speaking on the topic — "How can Indian States get their act together?" — the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, said India was facing a "crisis of governance" due to the "indifference" of the educated elite, the non-participation of the deprived and the growing tendency of seeing things in a bad light. Besides, what was affecting the governance was the tendency of not seeing things in a proper perspective."How could there be a feel good factor in the country if the States failed to emulate each others' best practices and achievements," he asked. The Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, who also spoke on the issue, underlined the need for the Centre and the States to build on each other's strengths. He dwelt at length on the need to keep pace with the strides in the IT sector. — PTI
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