Guwahati: President Droupadi Murmu will visit the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati campus on Thursday during her visit to Assam.
Murmu will be on a two-day visit to the northeastern state which will be her first after assuming the highest office.
The President will be accompanied by Governor Jagadish Mukhi, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Union Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar and Assam Health Minister Keshab Mahanta along with other dignitaries, said a statement.
During her visit to the campus, Murmu will inaugurate the ‘PARAM KAMRUPA’ Supercomputer facility and a high-power active and passive component laboratory of SAMEER at IIT Guwahati, it added.
The event at IIT Guwahati will also include the Virtual Inauguration of the Medical College and Hospital in Dhubri, Assam, and a foundation stone laying ceremony for the Zonal Institutes of National Institute of Virology at Dibrugarh, Assam and Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, by Murmu.