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Patna,(BiharTimes): Former President A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday suggested measures to combat the annual menace of floods in Bihar, especially in the tran-Ganga northern half.
Inaugurating the 3rd Bihar Science Congress at Gaya College, Gaya he said there are no other scientific and technological challenges for Bihar other than river water management by generating huge reservoirs and canal system and linking all other rivers to major rivers to combat floods. |
Since the state often gets much more water than required it needs to harness the available water and manage it, so that it not only becomes a granary of India through irrigation but also produces electricity. said.
“We have to find innovative flood management techniques in Kosi river, the main flood bearing river in Bihar, with intensive international co-operation,” he said.
The chief minister, Nitish Kumar, made a brief speech saying that he had in fact come to listen to the former President. He later inaugurated a girls’ hostel in Gaya College.
Later, in the evening a programme was organized in Renaissance, where the scientific advisor to the Prime Minister of India and Vice Chancellor of Hyderabad University, Syed Ehtesham Hasnain, spoke on Muslim Youth’s inclination towards science. Prof Hasnain originally hails from Gaya, where he spent his school and college life.
Full speech of Dr. KALAM
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