PRESIDENT VISITS TRIPURA
AND MANIPUR
The President
of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is undertaking an intensive tour
of the North Eastern states of the country. In the first phase,
he will be visiting Tripura and Manipur on 4th and
5th October 2002. The President had earlier visited
the North Eastern states at several occasions in his capacity
as Scientific Adviser to the Government of India and shared technological
innovations for solving certain problems.
His programme
in Tripura includes laying a foundation stone of a state-of-the-art
fruit processing unit in Bodhjungnagar with government, industry,
research and development laboratories cooperation. The President
will also inaugurate a tele-medicine facility center established
by CARE Foundation in GB Pant Hospital at Agartala. The two projects
are aimed at bringing the latest technologies at the door-step
of the North Eastern region. The tele-medicine center will help
the people of these far-flung areas to have access to the best
medical advice in the country without having to leave Agartala.
In Manipur, the
President will inaugurate another technology power project which
is based on heavy fuel. He will also hold interactive meetings
with children, youth and teachers from various schools and universities.
During these
visits, the President will interact with a large cross-section
of people including Ministers, officials, leaders, industrialists,
scientists and social workers. He would like to use this opportunity
to have a first-hand knowledge of the on-going development works
in these states and also to get to know the pressing problems
being faced by the people. The possibilities of taking up innovative
development projects and infusing appropriate technological solutions
into the on-going projects would be explored. The interactive
sessions with the school children and youth will be used to ignite
the young minds with a vision of a developed and prosperous India.
All the states
of the North Eastern region are well endowed with resources –
both natural as well as human and thus, have a potential to develop
at a rapid pace. The President strongly believes that by giving
a suitable impetus to the mission of development process and by
partnership between hard-working people of these states, the whole
area could be quickly transformed into a beacon of peace and prosperity.
For immediate release.
