New Delhi : Various states lined up on Thursday with measures to pay tribute to late President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Assam will soon set up a centre for innovation in the state that will be named after Kalam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced on Thursday. Stating that the centre would come up “soon”, Gogoi said it would help engage young minds of the state and the northeast in entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.
The Bihar cabinet, meanwhile, approved a proposal to name Kishanganj Agriculture College and the proposed science city in Patna after Kalam, officials said. “This decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar,” Cabinet Coordination Department Principal Secretary Shishir Kumar Sinha said.
And authorities of the Madina Masjid in Meghalay’s Shillong, the only glass mosque in the northeast, have decided to christen its library in honour of the “people’s president”.
