Kalam asks youth to start fighting corruption from home

Updated on: Monday, February 07, 2011

Former President A P J Abdul Kalam asked the youths to start fighting corruption from their homes.
"If a daughter or son goes and tells father not to be corrupt, then it will certainly bring a change. The youths should tell their parents that corruption is bad," Kalam said in his address at D D Kosambe Memorial Lecture.

"Just imagine a son or daughter walking to their father and telling that corruption is our enemy, itâ€™s bad and he should not be a corrupt person. That would make a huge
difference," he said.

Speaking about his much talked about vision 2020, Kalam said that recessionary trend had halted the Gross domestic product (GDP) growth of the country.

"But now the recession is over and GDP growth is good. If GDP continues to be 10 per cent over the next eight years, then India can emerge as an economically strong nation by 2020," he said.

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