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School students pay tributes to Kalam

Published: 01 Dec 2015 - 01:11 am | Last Updated: 08 Nov 2021 - 09:57 am
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Officials and students at the event.

DOHA: Students of Indian schools in Doha participated in an interactive session with Srijan Pal Singh, author, entrepreneur, scientist and former adviser to late Indian President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam.
The event was hosted by Science India Forum Qatar (SIFQ) to mark the grand finale ‘Shastrayaan 2015’ a tribute to Dr Kalam.
Manoj Pillai, Chairman, SIFQ, welcomed the gathering and carried them through the year-long journey of Shastrayaan 2015. 
Indian Ambassador Sanjiv Arora was Chief Guest. 
Winners of competitions were felicitated. A souvenir to commemorate the event was released as a tribute to the ‘Jewel of India’.
 Advantage India, a book by Dr Kalam, co-authored by Singh was presented to Arora.
Nandakumar, Coordinator,  science India forums in the GCC, A K Srivastava, Balasubramanium, Sateesh Pillai, V S Narayanan and K A Gopal were present.
 
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