Freebies will make people lazy: Kalam

KARIAPATTI:The practice of government distributing various items free of cost to the people, would make the beneficiaries lazy, former President A P J Abdul Kalam said during an interaction with college students here on Friday.
During an interaction programme with the president, Aiswarya of Devangar College asked the former President what was his opinion about the provision of freebies to the people by the government. Abdul Kalam replied that freebies would only make people lazy. Everyone should work hard and with that earning purchase all that he or she needed. 'Only food bought with one's earnings would assimilate in his system', he said.