President Murmu To Visit Simlipal Sanctuary This Week

Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu will visit Simlipal Tiger Reserve in the Mayurbhanj district during her visit to Odisha.

She is scheduled to arrive on May 4 and return to Delhi on May 6.

During her visit to the state, the President is scheduled to visit Rairangpur, Pahadpur, and Baripada of Mayurbhanj district.

Several programmes are lined up during the President’s visit to Odisha. She will visit her late husband Shamcharan Murmu’s village in Pahadpur and attend a programme there in his honour, visit Gosani, and lay the foundation stone of a community center to be built by NABARD for SLS Trust School.

On May 5, Murmu will visit Similipal National Park amid tight security. On the following day, she is scheduled to attend the 12th Convocation of the Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University (MSCB University), formerly North Orissa University, at Baripada. She will then return to Delhi.

Students from 28 departments and more than 50 PhD students will get their degrees at the convocation. Besides, five eminent personalities will also be presented the honoris causa degrees by the University, which recently got an A grade from National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).

It is to be noted here that the President had attended the second convocation of her alma mater Rama Devi Women’s University in Bhubaneswar on February 10.