President Kalam gives Kerala 10-point agenda

  • 28/07/2005

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam has presented Kerala with a 10-point development agenda aimed at making the State an economic power house by 2015.Delivering a historic address to the members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly on Thursday morning, Mr. Kalam urged the State to identify its core competences and adopt 10 different missions, including development of tourism, waterways and deep-sea fishing, development and marketing of knowledge products and pharmaceutical products, creation of an army of nurses and paramedics to meet the rising demand at national and global levels, setting up of exclusive economic zones to attract NRI and other investors, value addition to tea, coffee, spices, coconut and fruits and use of space technology for industrial development to achieve its development goals.