Prez Draupadi Murmu To Arrive In Odisha Today

Bhubaneswar: President Draupadi Murmu is all set to arrive in Odisha on a three-day visit on Thursday.

Murmu is scheduled to visit her in-law’s Pahadpur village in a special car to lay a wreath at the statue of her husband Shyam Charan Murmu and lay the foundation stone of a community centre at SLS Trust School to be built by NABARD and a skill development centre on behalf of L&T Company. “After spending some time with the school students and villagers, she will leave at 12:30 PM and go to the Brahmakumari Center at Satuputiya in Hatbadada to inaugurate the Drug-Free Odisha campaign,” it read.

She will be visiting the Rairangpur Municipal Office and pay a wreath at the statue of Madhusudan Das. “At 4:25, after hoisting a 100-foot national flag at Badabandh, at 4:35 p.m., she will visit the Rairangpur Municipal Office and pay a wreath at the statue of Madhusudan Das. After that, there is a discussion program with the local residents from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm in the Meeuldiha bungalow by joining the program organized by Rairangpur Municipality at the stadium. After spending the night in Bengal she will leave at 7:55 am on 05.05.2023 and go to Rairangpur residence. From there, at 8.40 am, she will go to Dandbosh and lay a wreath at the statue of Pandit Raghunath Murmu on his birth anniversary. From there, she will leave by helicopter at 9:15 a.m. and land at Jashipur helipad at 10:00 a.m. and go to Similipal National Park in a special vehicle on the road. Next, she will fly to the district headquarter. After reaching the Baripada helipad at 5:25 PM, she will stay at the circuit house. After talking with the locals from 6 to 7 in the evening, they will spend the night,” it read.

According to the secretariat, on Saturday she will reach Maharaja Sri Ramachandra Bhanjdeo University for the convocation program Baripada Taktpur.

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).