PATNA: Former president APJ Abdul Kalam will deliver a lecture on ‘Socially and Economically Developing Bihar’ at a workshop to be organized by the Bihar Chamber of Commerce (BCC) here on May 3.
BCC president O P Sah said the workshop was being organized as the state is surging ahead in development with justice and social harmony. “At this juncture, Kalam’s guidance will be helpful for he would give important suggestions for the all round social and economic development of the state and its people,” Sah told TOI.
“Bihar has wriggled out of the crumbled administrative machinery. With the incumbent government discharging its duty with utmost care and responsibility, a new hope has emerged that Bihar will surge ahead with sufficient social and economic development of all its people,” Sah said.
In such a positive environment, a brainstorming session of the experts is needed under the guidance of former president Kalam, who had been a guiding force to the Chamber earlier also when in his speech he had virtually scripted the development prowess of the Bihar people and the need of utilizing their talent and immense natural and other resources of the state, BCC president Sah said.
The other speakers at the workshop would include water resources minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, industries minister Renu Kumari Kushwaha, eminent sociologist and secretary, Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Razi Ahmad and orthopaedic surgeon Dr R N Singh.