Dr. Kalam's message to all Indians(text based)

Message to the citizens of my country

Dear friends, as you are aware, India, the largest democracy in the World is going to elect the members of her 15th Lok Sabha and members of Legislative Assembly in certain states. Dear friends, it is a great opportunity provided to us to elect the members who will be guiding the destiny of the nation for the next five years. The right to vote is a sacred right and an onerous responsibility that we owe to the motherland.

The dawn of beautiful India is in our mind and then in our deeds. The deed for the day of the election for us is to cast our vote and be a proud contributor to the success of the spirit of democracy of the largest and dynamic democracy of all democracies. Dear friends, let us all go ahead and exercise our fundamental right to vote and elect the righteous candidate.

APJ Abdulkalam 

Dr. Kalam's message to the nation

Dear readers,

Voting is the basic right of every Indian and if anyone does not use it to solve the problems of nation, he/she has no right to blame or the nation for the problems faced by all Indians today.Here, Dr Abdul Kalam exhorts people to vote for righteous candidates & sets 5 point agenda for new MPs.Interview by Mr.K.Srinivasan, Founder & Managing Trustee, Prime Point Foundation, a non-profit, chennai based NGO.Please forward the message to as many people as possible.

Note:The video is in compressed format so quality may suffer.You may download this using Real Player 11.After download you may use the YouTube Downloader available for free at http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/ to convert it in high quality.

Rule 49-O

Rule 49-O is a rule in The Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961^[1] of India, which governs elections in the country. It describes the procedure to be followed when a valid voter decides not to cast his vote, and decides to record this fact. The apparent purpose of this section is to prevent the election fraud or the misuse of votes.

Text of the rule:

49-O. Elector deciding not to vote.-If an elector, after his electoral roll number has been duly entered in the register of voters in Form-17A and has put his signature or thumb impression thereon as required under sub-rule (1) of rule 49L, decided not to record his vote, a remark to this effect shall be made against the said entry in Form 17A by the presiding officer and the signature or thumb impression of the elector shall be obtained against such remark.

Meaning:

If a person decides to vote no one, then his/her vote will be counted as a negative vote.This is a useful tool to get our needs and expectations fullfilled by the govt. 

Present Implications of Rule 49-O:

Since the ballot paper / Electronic voting machine (EVM) contains only the list of candidates, a voter cannot record his vote under Section 49-O directly. He must inform the presiding officer at the election booth. This violates the secrecy of the ballot. However, with paper ballot a different method is used to “waste” ones vote, which is stamping on multiple candidates. In fact this was the standard method of giving null votes without violating secrecy before the advent of the EVM.

At present, in an election, a winner will be declared irrespective of the number of ‘non-votes’. However, a note of every ‘non-vote’ will be made with the Election Officer, and the total number of non-voters will, presumably, be available under the Right to Information Act.

Dear readers,

I recently found a video on You Tube which says all that I wanted to say on this blog and thus I am sharing it here.

Note:I do not take any credits for the video since it is a property of Mr.Anoop Sherlekar

and sincerely thank him for creation and sharing of this video.

Available on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEQWzwUB9GQ

TOI Lead India Video

Dear Readers,

Please watch this video carefully.This expresses this I wnt to tell...the boy is the effort we need for development...i.e.,  an initiave, team spirit, and hard work.The girl who says "I hate this country" represents the part of negative youth, who are themself not taking any action but blaming everyone and just blaming. 

About the video :

This  video has been produced by Times of India and audio is made by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

You can download this video from You Tube.

Some facts and figures

Building of Indian Parliament:

The Parliament House (Sansad Bhavan) is a circular building designed by the British architect Herbert Baker in 1912–1913.The roof of the outer circle of the structure is supported by 257 granite pillars. The Houses are located on Janpath, a stone's throw away from the presidential palace (Rashtrapati Bhavan). It can be seen from India Gate.

Strange Water Scarcity:

India receives about 4% of the global precipitation and ranks 133 in the world in terms of water availability per person per annum but still in India there is water scarcity. Why? Because we are not able to manage rainwter, about 1.25% of the total rainwater in India gets wasted.The best solution that seems today is rainwater harvesting which must be done at indivisual level.
In villge in Karnatak called Gendathur, about 100000 l of rainwater is harvested.Then why not in your city?

Tourism:
India is ranked world's 4th best holiday heaven by overseas travellers. Still we think there is nothing in India!

Our presence in the world:
1) There are 3.22 million Indians in America.
2) 38% of doctors in America are Indians
3) 12% of scientists in America are Indians
4) 36% of NASA employees are Indians
5) 34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians
6) 28% of IBM employees are Indians
7) 17% of INTEL employees are Indians
8) 13% of XEROX employees are Indians.

Someof the Successful Indians:
1)The world's 3rd richest person is Azim Premji.
2)The co-founder of Sun microsystems(the creator of Java) is Vinod Khosla.
3)Vinod Dahm is the creator of Pentium chip.
4)Arun Netravalli is the current president of AT&T Labs.
5)The founder and creator of hotmail is Sabeer Bhatia.
6)Sanjay Tejwrika is the testing director of Windows 2000.

Note: This post is still incomplete and is in the process of completion.

The problem is our Attitude!

Dear readers,
Yesterday I was waiting for green signal at a square when suddenly a laborer
dragging a thela came shouting at me to move in a red signal.His words were "Are jaane do,agar aapko nahi jaana toh hamein to jaane doh"I considered his foolishness as he was an uneducated person but what about the educated group.Later when I was returning I found that the signal was red but no one even gave a single look at it before crossing it.I was the only person to stand and wait there.Its not about following or not following traffic rules the problem is that we are not willing to change.We have already decided our limitations.Yesterday in a hotel a person after looking at crowd just said that "Ab toh bas yahin baithe rahna hai" whereas we also came at the same time but we got entry in about 15 minutes and that person could not get it becouse of his negativity only.Why we think that nothing can change when we are ourself not ready to change?There is a
problem of parking space everywhere,but still multi storied parking cannot solve the problem because we are not ready to climb stairs so we do not use them.We just see the tangible benefits but we do not see the intangible benefits.We cannot employ a watchman to check that no one keeps vehicle outside on the road because he will himself take Rs.100 bribe and let people keep vehicle.Traffic police cannot send crane there because there is no space for the huge crane on the narrow road.What is result?The road becomes narrow due to vehicles and stalls etc. and finally we face the problem,we are not able to reach our destination fast and then we break traffic rules and do accidents.Finally loss is to our country.Our country loses human resource,our country's GDP remains less,our country's Per Capita remains less and finally when our
country is called undeveloped we blame the govt.We are the real enemies of nation and not those who do not do not shout in India Pakistan Cricket match for India.These are small mistakes but results in big problem.This is my

request to all the Indians, Change your attitude, think positively; the world can change if

we change. Change is the only permanent thing in this world. The development of a nation

is in the interest of the individual. One billion people when divided, cause a big problem for

a nation but the same billion people when united, can become the strength of a country, so

unite together and contribute towards the development of India till you succeed.

NOTE:The above article was selected by Editorial board of Billion Beats, an e-paper started by Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam(the editorial board consists of many prominent scientists of DRDO and Kalam Sir himself!) and published in the August 2008 edition of Billion Beats.