The Sate administration is on its toes for President Pranab Mukherjee’s two-day visit from Friday. Chief Secretary Jugal Kishore Mohapatra took a review of the preparations for the President’s visit at a high-level meeting.
After his arrival in Bhubaneswar during afternoon hours of Friday, Mukherjee is scheduled to proceed to Puri and make night halt at the Raj Bhavan, Puri. On Saturday, he is slated to have darshan of Shree Jagannath at the temple during morning hours before proceeding to Bhubaneswar to attend the second convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar around noon.
Mukherjee is also scheduled to address the annual convocation of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Centre for Communication & Management in Bhubaneswar in afternoon on Saturday and dedicate the Bhavan’s library to the people during its ongoing platinum jubilee year.
The Vidya Bhavan convocation will be held at the XIMB auditorium while the IIT convocation will be held in auditorium of the Institute of Minerals and Mineral Technology (IMMT). The President will leave Bhubaneswar to Delhi in Saturday evening.