Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu will make her maiden visit to Rairangpur, her native place in Mayurbhanj district this week, since assuming office.
She will also go on a tour of Similipal National Park later this week, officials said. Her visit to the national park, a tiger reserve that covers an area of 2,750km, will be the first by a President of India, the officials said.
Murmu will pay the three-day visit to her home district from May 4 and visit her in-law’s village Pahadpur in Rairangpur subdivision. The President will reach Kalaikunda Air Force station in West Bengal, May 4, and from there travel by helicopter to Badampahar helipad and reach Pahadpur the same day, an official informed.
Murmu had visited the state twice earlier since assuming office in July 2022. However, this time her visit will be confined to Mayurbhanj district only.
According to the schedule made available to the media, the President will visit the memorial of her husband Shyamcharan Murmu and her two sons and attend various programmes at Rairangpur. She is also slated to lay the foundation stones of two projects at Pahadpur and spend the night at Rairangpur Inspection Bungalow, the officials said.
She will visit Simlipal National Park May 5 and spend the entire day there. Murmu will visit Baripada, the Mayurbhanj district headquarter town and attend the convocation of Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University the next day dated May 6 before winding up her visit and returning to Delhi.
Meanwhile, the president’s proposed visit has created a flutter among the people of the locality. The entire Pahadpur village is undergoing a complete makeover with kutcha roads leading to it being concretised and her in-law’s house renovated. The local residents are looking forward to the President’s visit and to accord a grand welcome to the daughter of the soil, an official said.
PNN