Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was born in 1939 in Tamil Nadu, India. He received his engineering degree from IIT Madras and worked on missile programs with ISRO and DRDO from 1958-1982, becoming the director of DRDO in 1982. He oversaw projects including India's Agni missile and Arjun tank. Kalam received India's highest civilian honors, the Bharat Ratna in 1997 and Padma Bhushan awards in 1981 and 1991. In 2002, he became the 11th President of India and was known as the "Missile Man" for his work on India's missile and weapons programs, including its first atomic blasts in 1974 and 1999.

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 BY KRUTI-SHAH
 JUN 03, 2020 18:09
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Abul Pakar Janual Abeden Abdul Kalam became the 12th president of
the Republic of India and he was elected with more than 90% of votes
more than the other candidate Who was captain Lakshmi Sehgal supported
by left parties Dr. Kalam gets the support from the NDA and Congress. Dr.
Kalam was born on 15th October 1939 in Rameshwaram in Tamilnadu his

2. father was an ordinary man who gave the boats on rent to the fisherman he
was the big famous of self Independence and self-respect.
He held his family economically by selling newspapers. Kalam completed
BSc from Sent Joseph's College of Trichanapalli. After that he taking
engineering degree Aronotical engineering from IIT Chennai. He joined
DRDO(Defence Research and development organization) in 1958. After
that, he worked on the Missile programs run by ISRO (Indian Space
Research Organisation) from 1962 to 1982. He became the director
of DRDO in 1982 and worked on an integrated directed missile program
and he also worked over the project on Agni missile and Arjun tank and also
on hike compact aircraft. After that he received the "Bharat
Ratna" award in 1997 and before this, he got Padma Bhushan in 1991
and Padma Bhushan in 1981.
After all these achievements he was elected the President of India on 25th
July 2002. She was called the title of "Missile man" because he was the
most responsible man for the Missile and weapons programs. You also
contribute a lot in the atomic program of India and he was the first who came
into light when India and their first atomic blast on 24th June 1974 and after
this he was the main person behind the atomic blast on 11th and 13th April
1999 which is called "Operation Vijay" which by Prime Minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee.
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