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INDIA’S 2020-2030
A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM:
A VISIONARY AND
DREAMER
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India and
Bharat Ratna awardee is remembered as a far-
sighted modern architect of Indian space and
missile programmes. Kalam was an institution-
builder and a team-builder, a visionary and a
dreamer, who always wanted to build a strong
and self-reliant India. He would say "We must
think and act like a nation of a billion people."
Kalam joined the Aeronautical Development
Establishment of the Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO) as a scientist
in 1958. He invented a small hovercraft at DRDO.
Later he took up a job with the Indian National
Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR)
where Vikram Sarabhai was his senior. He was
the project director of the SLV-III, India’s first
indigenously designed and produced satellite
launch vehicle.
He also had a major role in the nuclear tests of
India. These tests were successful and Kalam got
the status of a national hero. He was, no doubt,
an excellent scientist but also had a great vision
of India’s development. His goal was to produce
a reusable missile which no country in the world
has been able to produce. Judging by his earlier
achievements, this invention does not seem a
distant possibility for us.
-Anushree Mohandas, VIII B
CLIMATE GOALS
The Ministry of Environment and Forests
(MoEF) is the nodal agency in the administrative
structure of the Central Government for planning,
promotion, co-ordination and overseeing the
implementation of India's environmental and
forestry policies and programmes.
CLIMATE GOALS
For post-2020-30 period, in response to the
decisions of the Conference to the Parties, India
submitted its Nationally Determined Contribution
(NDC) to the UNFCCC on 2nd October, 2015,
outlining the climate actions intended to be
taken under the Paris agreement. The eight goals
put forth by India in its NDC are:
• To reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP.
• To achieve about 40% cumulative electric
power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel
based energy resources by 2030 with the help of
transfer of technology and low cost international
finance including from Green Climate Fund
(GCF).
• To create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3
billion tonnes of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) equivalent
through additional forest and tree cover by 2030.
• To better adapt to climate change by enhancing
investments in development programmes
in sectors vulnerable to climate change,
particularly agriculture, water resources,
Himalayan region, coastal regions, health and
disaster management.
• To mobilize domestic and new & additional funds
from developed countries to implement the
above mitigation and adaptation actions in view
of the resource required and the resource gap.
• To build capacities, create domestic framework
and international architecture for quick diffusion
of cutting edge climate technology in India and
for joint collaborative R&D for such future.
- Aegle, VIII-C
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