Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu is on a two-day visit to Odisha starting from today. It is her maiden visit after assuming the office of the President.
After arriving here at Biju Patnaik International Airport, Murmu will receive guard of honour at the airport and then directly fly to Puri, where she will visit the Jagannath temple.
At around 12 p.m., the President is expected to arrive at the helipad and be escorted to Sri Jagannath temple. After having the darshan of Lord Jagannath and other deities in the temple, she will visit Puri Raj Bhawan, where Mahaprasad will be served to her.
The devotees will be prohibited from entering the temple during the visit of the President to the temple, officials said.
She will return to Bhubaneswar in the afternoon and garland the statues of eminent persons here. She will then attend a civic reception at Raj Bhavan in the evening.
On the second day (November 11), she will visit Tapoban High School at Khandagiri, Unit-2 Government Girls High School and Kuntala Kumari Sabat Tribal Hostel, where she stayed.
The President is also scheduled to inaugurate an Odia textbook for engineering and a portal (e-Kumbh) at Jaydev Bhawan before flying back to Delhi on November 11.
