It is all about Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

2. Photo Album
• by ADI

3. About the Legend
• Full name :Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
• Visit on the Planet:15th Oct 1931,at Dhanushkodi in Rameswaram
District,Tamil Nadu
• Father:Jainulabdeen Marakayar,a boat owner
• Mother:Ashiamma
• Has three siblings

4. Education
 Primary education was from Rameshwaram elementary school.
 Later he settled in schwartz, Ramanathapuram
where he was highly inspired by his teacher IYADURAI SOLOMON,who told to master three forces
desire,belief and expectation.
 In 1950 he joined St Joseph college at Tiruchirapalli to do B.Sc
 He joined DMIT in Aeronautical Engineering at MIT,Madas(1954-1957)
 In 1958,after passing as a graduate,aeronautical engineer,he joined
Hindustan Aeronautical Limited(HAL),Bangalore as a trainee.

5. Became the 11th President of India
on 25th July 2002.
DR.KALAM is one of the most
distinguished scientists of India .
AWARDS –
PADMA BHUSHAN (1981)
PADMA VIBHUSHAN (1990)
BHARAT RATNA (1997)

6. Major Contributions
 He helped in the development of India’s first Satellite Launch Vehicle SLV-3,in1980 which helped India to become the member of
Space Club by injecting Rohini, in Earth’s nearest orbit.
 He played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India’s Pokhran-II Nuclear test in 1998.
 In 1982, as Director of DRDO, Kalam was entrusted with the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme(IGMDP), India's
most successful military research task to date. The programme constituted of 5 major projects for meeting the requirements of the
defence services and for establishing re-entry technology.
 He served as a principal scientific adviser to the Defense Minister and later Govt of India (1999-2001) and was responsible for
evolving policies, strategies and missions for many development applications.

7. KALAM'S DEPRESSION AND DEVOTION TO HIS
WORK
• Three deaths in the family depressed Kalam. He lost interest in life. To overcome all these tragedies he needed total commitment to
his SLV work. He also stopped thinking of his family, relations and friends. Nothing outside the SLV circle ever came into his mind.
He put a hold button on his life outside the circle of SLV. This shows Kalam’s single-minded devotion towards his goal.
• Individuals like Kalam are called workaholics. But Kalam did not like the term “workaholic” because it implies an illness.
He says that to succeed in our life we must have single-minded devotion to our goal. Sometimes we work towards that which we
desire more than anything else does in the world. There is no hurry and no distractions to the worker’s attention. There would no
more difference between the workers and work. In addition, The worker would flow into the work. Kalam and his team experienced
his flow.
• Kalam says that to succeed in our life we must have single-minded devotion to our goal. Sometimes we work towards that
which we desire more than anything else does in the world. If we are charged with total commitment to our work, the next thing we
require is good health coupled with boundless energy