KALAM: " INDIANS NEED ANTI-CORRUPTION BILL AT HOME NOT PARLIAMENT

Former President, APJ Abdul Kalam today said,  Indians first need an anti-corruption bill legislated in their respective homes, rather than a bill from the parliament.

 “First, we need an anti-corruption Bill for a clean house, home and then the Nation,” Kalam said, who was here to inaugurate the annual seminar on sustainability at the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong.

The “missile man” was at his eccentric best and while spelling out the ways to make India corruption free, he inquired to the questionnaire with a hint of cynicism: “If I say something would you follow?”

then the former President went on to explain that  it is the duty of the parents to inculcate within their children a spirit of doing the right things in their houses for a clean and vibrant India.

The youngsters on their part needs to step their foot in when they find the elders going awry, Kalam told the gathering of students, faculty and other guests.

“Strong anti-corruption laws, like what Anna Hazare is demanding may come, but would only fill jails…we need something else right in our homes,” Kalam emphasised.

Although many would agree with what Kalam meant about “regulating ourselves first” and this process of self-regulation may be on within many, but many Indians wouldn’t mind to see the jails filled up at this moment with conmen increasing by the day and looting the public exchequer.

The Congress-led UPA Government has been dilly-dallying from framing a “strong” Lokayukta, despite the country having witnessed some of the strongest protest on its streets last year against scams and demand for swift punitive action against the guilty.

Meanwhile, Kalam has accepted a request from IIM, Shillong to be its visiting faculty and would teach on “societal transformation bio-technology and its application.” He had earlier taken up a similar assignment at IIM-Ahmedabad.

“I am a teacher. As a Professor wherever the knowledge takes me I go and share it. I like meeting young people and I would like to contribute to their knowledge," he said.

Director IIM, Shillong, Keya Sengupta said that the institute would be greatly enriched through Kalam’s intervention. “We are extremely grateful and lucky that the former President has accepted our request to be our faculty this summer,” she said.