PHILADELPHIA: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam has suggested intensive management training for Indian MPs to enable them to effectively run the country in the changed global scenario.
The term of Parliament members could be increased to six years from the current five years with the MPs spending one year in a prestigious management institutions, Kalam told the students and teachers of Wharton School which had organized a meet on India here.
Currently, the politicians are too much party-centric, he pointed out, adding that in new circumstances, it is necessary that they know best management practices to run the country. Maintaining his strong support for the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, Kalam said India has to go in for nuclear energy in a big way to meet its fast growing developmental needs.
He said as a scientist, he must support the deal as India lacks uranium resources, while simultaneously calling for intensive research to use thorium as nuclear fuel.
Noting that India has abundance of thorium, he said it is essential that it carries out an intensive research to use the non-fissile material for maximizing its utilization and generating power.
But he said it would take 5 to 10 years for research to fructify and hence he supported the nuclear deal.
The mix for energy independence, he said, envisages use of four routes -- Hydel plus Thermal till coal availability, solar power using high efficiency CNT based SPV cells, and Thorium- based nuclear reactors and bio-fuel for transportation sector.
India, Kalam said, needs to embark on agro-processing aggressively as it has to increase production to 340 million tonnes of food grains from the existing 200 million tones with reduced land availability (170 million to 100 million hectares) and reduced water availability by 2020.
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