Form vision 2030 for global peace

TUMKUR: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam on the occasion of 65th Independence day of India gave a call to the world community to co-operate with each other to bring global peace and harmony.While interacting with students at a programme organised by Ramamanohar Lohia Samatha Vidyalaya at Sira, he said that the global community should work towards Vision-2030, to make the Planet Earth a better place to live in on all terms. The European countries and the South East Asian countries have been seemingly coming together extending mutual co-operation to share the knowledge, he                         observed.He was responding to a person, who asked the architect of the Indian Missile technology as why he should not take a lead to tell the world that the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)would turn a bane to the world.“If the Vision-2030 can be achieved with mutual trust and co-operation, the world would be free from the concerns of wars”, he                            advocated.Meanwhile, he clarified that India, like any other country, should have a minimum capacity of weapons to safeguard itself from the aggression of the enemies. India was always against wars, he clarified to a             student.Writer Devanuru Mahadeva, thinker K Dorairaj, farmers’ leaders Kadidalu Shamanna, Anasuyamma, the Vidyalaya’s managing trustee Prof Ravivarma Kumar and others were present. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the assembly T B Jayachandra, Tumkur DC C Somashekhara, academician Prof G M Srinivasaiah,  journalist S Naganna and others were among the audience.