Prez on 2-day trip to Assam from today

Guwahati: President Droupadi Murmu will virtually lay the foundation stones for 100 model secondary schools in Assam’s tea garden areas, aimed at uplifting the tea tribe community on Friday here, during her two-day visit to the state from Thursday.
From here, Murmu on Friday will also virtually inaugurate Angwanwadi centres with modern facilities, launch Mission Saubhagya, inaugurate Rail-Fed petroleum storage depot of Indian Oil Corporation Limited in Silchar, launch two highway projects and flag off a train from Guwahati to Nagaland’s Shokhuvi.
After her arrival from Tripura on Thursday, Murmu will launch a supercomputer facility, “Param Kamrupa”, and the facility for design and development of high-power microwave components on IIT-Guwahati campus.
She will also virtually inaugurate a medical college and hospital in Assam’s Dhubri and Zonal Institutes of National Institute of Virology in Assam’s Dibrugarh and in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur. In the evening, she will attend a civic reception and cultural programme, to be hosted in her honour at the Assam Administrative Staff College in Guwahati.
Assam tourism minister Jayanta Malla Baruah said, “The President will attend a programme at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra on Friday. From there, she will virtually inaugurate or lay the foundation stones for various central and state governments’ projects, including the foundation stones for 100 model secondary schools in tea garden areas.” She will visit the Kamakhya temple to offer prayers on Friday.
Meanwhile, the traffic police department has placed some restrictions on vehicular movements in the cityon Thursday and Friday. Plying of commercial goods carrying vehicles of six wheels and above have been restricted from 8 am to 10.30 pm on Thursday and from 8 am to 9pm on Friday on the NH-27 and NH-17 in the city.