The Sate administration is gearing up to welcome President Ram Nath Kovind on his two-day visit to Odisha. A high-level meeting to this effect was held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi at the State Secretariat on Thursday in the presence of Home Secretary Asit Kumar Tripathy and Director General of Police Dr Rejendra Prasad Sharma.
The Chief Secretary directed the concerned departments to complete the preparations well before the scheduled time.
So far, three programmes have been slated for the President, who would arrive at Bhubaneswar on March 17 and dedicate the Anand Bhawan (Biju Patnaik’s birthplace) Museum and learning Centre at Tulasipur in Cuttack to the people of Odisha in the afternoon. Then, the President would grace the foundation day celebration of the National law University, Cuttack.
On March 18, the President would inaugurate the centenary celebrations of the Rashtriya Sanskirt Sansthan in Puri.
Further details of programmes are awaited from the Presidents’ Secretariat.
It was decided at the meeting to set up a specific control room in the Home Department for coordination of the President’s programmes. The control room would be connected with telephone No. 0674-2536522 and fax number 0674-23912115.