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Missile Man of India

Dr.  A.P.G abdul kalam was a prominent indian scientist was a prominent indian scientist who served as the 11th president of india from 2002 to 2007.He was the first scientist and first bachelor to become the president of india.

Dr.kalam is also known as people's president and the Missile man of india .He played a pivotal role in the nation's civilian space programme and military missile development .He was a great scientistand science administrator mainlyat Defence Research and Development organization (DRDO) and indian space Research Organization(Isro)

              In the 1970s, he began making efforts to develop the Polar Satellite Laungch vehicle (PSLV) which was first launched on 20th september,1993 . in the late 1990s he played a major role in conducting the pokhranll , aseries of five nuclear bomb test explosions at the indian Army's pokhran test range in May 1998. in 2002 India’s ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) put forward Kalam to succeed outgoing President Kocheril Raman Narayanan. Kalam was nominated by the Hindu nationalist (Hindutva) NDA even though he was Muslim, and his stature and popular appeal were such that even the main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, also proposed his candidacy. Kalam easily won the election and was sworn in as India’s 11th president, a largely ceremonial post, in July 2002. He remained committed to using science and technology to transform India into a developed country. In 2007 Kalam left office and was succeeded by Pratibha Patil, the country’s first woman president.

Kalam wrote several books, including an autobiography, Wings of Fire (1999). Among his numerous awards were two of the country’s highest honours, the Padma Vibhushan (1990) and the Bharat Ratna (1997).

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