President Droupadi Murmu is scheduled to visit Odisha on November 20 and 21. She will flag off three new trains from Badampahar in Mayurbhanj district, it is learnt.
Murmu will first arrive at Baripada to attend a special conference of the Santhali Writers' Association and then proceed to her native Rairangpur, where she is to spend the day and the night. The following day, she will go to Badampahar to flag off the new trains.
The trains are Badampahar-Salimar and Badampahar-Rourkela weekly trains and Badampaha-Tatanagar daily train.
The President will also attend some other programmes, the details of which are awaited.
This will be Murmu's second official visit to her native district after her assuming the highest post of the land.