President A P J Abdul Kalam will go back to Anna University after he hands over the charge to his successor on July 25, on the completition of his five-year term.
Speaking to rediff.com at a specially organised farewell party for over five hundred journalists from the capital, President Kalam said that he planned to move to rural areas and teach there.
Asked what his biggest achievement has been, Kalam said that he managed to open the President's house to the common people.
"During my term one to two million people visited Rashtrapati Bhavan. If you ask me what I would miss the most, I would say the Moghul Gardens," he said.
He said that his biggest regret is that he should have worked harder than he did. He shook hands with each and ever journalist present in the Ashok Hall, briefly answered their questions and stopped to have pictures taken with the media persons.
However, Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, an Independent candidate for the post of President, refused to
attend the event.