Prez to embark on 6-day Odisha visit

Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu will undertake a six-day visit to Odisha from February 2, during which she will launch various development projects in her native Mayurbhanj district and attend the convocation ceremony of a university in Balasore, among other programmes.Murmu will arrive in Bhubaneswar on the evening of February 2 and stay the night at the Lok Bhawan, an official statement said.

On February 3, she will visit Jajpur in the morning to offer prayers at Maa Biraja Temple, and then proceed to Balasore to attend the 12th convocation ceremony of Fakir Mohan University. In the evening, she will visit the Jagannath Temple in Puri.

The President will tour her native Mayurbhanj district on February 4, where she will inaugurate a holiday home at Mahuldiha in Rairangpur and visit a girls’ higher secondary school run by the Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste Development department.