Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik would inaugurate the Kalahandi branch of the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), KISS-Kalahandi Residential School, on Friday.
The sprawling eco-friendly and Wi-Fi green campus has come up at Badli under Bhawanipatna block.
Kalahandi MP Basanta Kumar Panda, Rajya Sabha member Sujit Kumar, Lanjigarh MLA Pradeep Dishari and KIIT & KISS founder and Kandhamal MP Dr Achyuta Samanta would grace the occasion.
The KIIT has built the campus with an investment of Rs 50 crore for land and infrastructural development and setting up of a mechanised kitchen, a 25-bed hospital and other facilities in a 1,20,000-sqft built-up area. It is a fully free school like KISS-Bhubaneswar. In the first phase, it would have the strength of 1,200 students from Standards-1 to 12 and provide quality education to poor tribal children of Kalahandi.