arrived here today on a two-day visit during which he will deliver a lecture on rural development and is scheduled to meet Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Kalam will share his ideas of rural development coinciding with the 33rd founding anniversary of Dhaka-based Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP).
Senior government officials received Kalam at the Shah Amanat International Airport along with CIRDAP executives and Indian High Commissioner Pankaj Sharan, a foreign ministry spokesman told PTI.
Kalam is also scheduled to meet Hasina, join an interaction with children from CIRDAP member countries, give an interview to a private TV channel and talk to the newsmen before he leaves on Thursday evening.
"He (Kalam) has his own fundamental idea of rural development which he will share with use delivering the CIRDAP Foundation Day lecture on July 5," the director general of the organization Durga P Paudyal told a news briefing earlier.
Paudyal said the theme of the CIRDAP anniversary this year intended to focus the issue of urban migration while Kalam, also a leading scientist, would explain his ideas how the trend of urban migration could be reversed.
CIRDAP is a regional, intergovernmental and autonomous organisation founded in 1979 at the initiative of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) while it works at the policy level having links with a designated institute or academy.
