NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu to embark her native Rairangpur in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district on Friday for the first time after assuming office, source said..

The President will depart from the White House at 7 am on Thursday, May 4, 2023, and land at Koleikunda Airport in West Bengal by a special plane from Palam Airport before making a special IAF MI-17 helicopter landing at Badampahad Helipad at 10:15 am.

Murmu will visit her in-law's Pahadpur village in a special vehicle to pay tribute to her late husband, Shyam Charan Murmu, and to lay the cornerstone for a community centre at SLS Trust School that NABARD will construct on behalf of the L&T Company.  "She would leave at 12:30 PM and head to the Brahmakumari Centre at Satuputiya in Hatbadada to launch the Drug-Free Odisha campaign after spending some time with the school pupils and villagers, it said.

She's going to the Rairangpur Municipal Office to lay a wreath at the Madhusudan Das statue.She will visit the Rairangpur Municipal Office at 4:25 and lay a wreath at the statue of Madhusudan Das after raising a 100-foot national flag at Badabandh. Following that, you can participate in a discussion programme with locals from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Meeuldiha bungalow by attending the Rairangpur Municipality programme that is being held at the stadium.

On May 5, 2023, at 7:55 am, she would depart from Bengal after spending the night there and travel to a house in Rairangpur. On the anniversary of Pandit Raghunath Murmu's birth, she will leave from there at 8.40 am and travel to Dandbosh to place a wreath at his statue. She will then depart by helicopter at 9:15 a.m., land at Jashipur helipad at 10:00 a.m., and travel by special car on the road to Similipal National Park. She will then take a flight to the district headquarters. She will arrive at the Baripada helipad at 5:25 PM and remain there. They would spend the night after conversing with the villagers between 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening," it said.

The president will arrive at Maharaja Sri Ramachandra Bhanjdeo University on Saturday for the convocation function Baripada Taktpur, as per schedule.

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