HEARTFELT HOMAGE TO HON'BLE Dr. A P J ABDUL KALAM

AINBOA PAYS HEARTFELT HOMAGE TO OUR BELOVED DR.A.P.J.A KALAM , EX- PRESIDENT OF INDIA AND A TRUE SON OF THE SOIL..WE AT NABARD PRAY TO ALMIGHTY TO GRANT ETERNAL PEACE TO THE DEPARTED SOUL AND WISH THAT  THE PIOUS SOUL RETURNS SOON TO BE WITH US AGAIN AND LEAD THE COUNTRY TO NEWER HEIGHTS...

I VIVIDLY AND FONDLY REMEMBER THE DAY, RATHER THE EVENING, WHEN A FEW OF US-ME, U. K. MOHANTY, NITIN... WERE PRIVILEGED TO MEET AND INTERACT WITH KALAM SAHEB AT LAL BHADUR SHASTRI ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENTS' FUNCTION, WHERE WE WERE INVITED TO BY OUR PATRON SRI ANIL SHASTRIJI. THAT EVENING KALAM SAHEB HAS, AS USUAL, SPOKEN ELOQUENTLY ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND PUT FORTH HIS VISION ABOUT RURAL INDIA TO ALL OF US IN GENERAL AND TO THE MANAGEMENT STUDENTS IN PARTICULAR. HE TALKED ABOUT 'PURA' AND THE NEED TO EMPOWER RURAL COMMUNITIES AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT, RBI, NABARD, FIs AND OTHERS CONNECTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY. HE WAS NOT AWARE THAT WE WERE ALSO THERE IN THE AUDIENCE AND WHEN HE SPOKE HIGHLY OF NABARDS' WORK AND PRESENCE AT THE GROUND LEVEL WE  COULDNT RESIST BUT TO CLAP AND FELT SO PROUD OF OUR ORGANISATION...

SUBSEQUENTLY WHEN SHASTRIJI  INTRODUCED US  AND WE WERE IN DIRECT CONVERSATION WITH HIM , HE SPOKE SO MANY WISE AND SAGACIOUS THINGS PERTAINING TO AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THOSE VALUABLE WORDS WERE...

"... DAY THE VERY LAST PERSON STANDING IN THE QUE AND WAITING FOR HIS EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT RECOGNISES NABARD AND GIVES YOU A SMILE AS AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO YOUR SERVICES , ALL OF YOU AT NABARD CAN FEEL SATISFIED AND HAPPY FOR A JOB DONE WELL..."

I HOPE AND AM SURE THAT NABARD WILL DEFINITELY ACHIEVE THIS, THOUGH THE PATH IS TOO LONG AND CHALLENGING , AND EACH STEP TAKEN IN THIS DIRECTION BY ALL OF US WHILE PERFORMING OUR ASSIGNED DUTIES WILL BE AND IS  THE TRUEST AND SINCEREST HOMAGE TO OUR BELOVED KAMAL SAHEB...

DR D S CHAUHAN

GENERAL SECRETARY