P.U.R.A. - Providing Urban Facilities in Rural Areas, was his great dream. In case we fulfill that will be a great tribute to His Excellency Bharat Ratna Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

P.U.R.A.- Providing Urban Facilities in Rural Areas, was his great dream. In case we fulfill that will be a great tribute to His Excellency Bharat Ratna Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam


I had privileged to talk to him via email. Twice.
1. During Ph.D. and Post-Doctorate, I had send him email and hard copy letter too on 25th July 2002. It was based on "Indigenisation" and told him that in case we don't act quickly on indiginisation, we'll not have even bullets for some foreign made guns and may be we'll lose our independence on technologies issue/ front due to patents and copy rights, etc. He liked the concept of my Ph.D. and he thought it's very much relevant.Our heartfelt thanks to H. E. the then President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, replied, "All the best for Ph.D." 2. When I came back from Canada, in 2005, I was searching for job. I contacted him and told that I'm interested to work for P.U.R.A.- Providing Urban Facilities in Rural Areas, in the domain, where it requires most. 
I authored a publication on it: Imagine, even as the President of India and later as a Former President of India, had problems of funds for such a dream project of him.Why, such idealistic projects fail? Is it not a failure of the whole of the human kind itself? Time and again we are failing our existence on earth. Why can't so powerful people in politics, spirituality, business, science and technology, ... get such idealistic projects done? PURA in India and Globally MDG goes hand in hand, and failure of one is failure of other. Why can't Millennium Development Goals (MDG) being ...done? Hence, I feel, if we Indians can fulfill his dream of PURA, it'll be a great tribute to him.

http://managementengineering.blogspot.in/2008/05/glorius-career-and-biodata-of-dr-p-j.html   

The first ever President of India while sitting in the Presidential Palace / Rashtrapati Bhavan/ Office had answered student like me in 2002 by email. 

http://www.slideshare.net/DrAshishManoharUrkud/faster-developmnt-of-india  , 
i.e. F.D.I. using Rapid TC4T i.e. Faster Development of India using Rapid Time Compression Technologies, Tools, Technologies and Talents. Then, I was asked to contact Dr. Indiresan. He told me in one word, the problem they are facing is....."FUNDS".

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fulfilling-purawill-great-tribute-hedrapjabdul-kalam-urkude?trk=pulse_spock-articles

In fact now, India requires smart farmers who are already hard working then it will be deadly combination to defeat death by suicide attempts:

http://managementengineering.blogspot.in/2015/10/india-requires-smart-marginal.html 

Dr. Ashish Manohar Urkude, ashish.urkude@gmail.com