Monday, December 23, 2013
The Spirit of Dr A P J Abdul Kalam :The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators
from job seekers.
- Dr Abdul Kalam
- Frisking by American security authorities :
Kalam was frisked at the JFK Airport in New York, while boarding a plane on 29 September 2011. He was subjected to "private screening" as he does not come under the category of dignitaries exempt from security screening procedures under American guidelines.
He was frisked again after boarding the Air India aircraft with the US security officials asking for his jacket and shoes, claiming that these items were not checked according to the prescribed procedures during the "private screening", despite protests from the airline crew confirming him as India's president.
The incident was not reported until 13 November 2011.India threatened retaliatory action as there was a "general sense of outrage" around the country.
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs protested over this incident and a statement by the ministry said that the US Government had written a letter to Kalam, expressing its deep regret for the inconvenience.
Kalam was previously frisked by the ground staff of the Continental Airlines at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi in July 2009 and was treated like an ordinary passenger, despite him being on the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security's list of people exempted from security screening in India.
Biographies:
A Little Dream (documentary film) by P. Dhanapal; Minveli Media Works Private Limited, 2008
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