President
to visit on 12 Jan
Rupesh Samant
8 January 2004
After taking over as India's President, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam
would be visiting Goa for the first time on January 12 and
13.
As expected, he would be spending considerable time interacting
with children in this coastal state.
Two different functions related to the interaction with school
children are on cards during President's visit. On January
13, he would be visit Sanjay School complex at Porvorim, situated
5 kms away from capital city of Panaji.
Sanjay School imparts education to the less ableded students.
He would be spending one hour with them. From there, President
along with his entourage would drive to Kala Academy where
800 students from Matruchhaya (home for orphane children),
Apna Ghar (a remand home for juvenile deliquents), Bal Bhavan
and few other schools would gather.
President will also lay foundation stone for secod phase of
Bal Bhavan at Campal, Panaji.
Besides interaction with children, President will also attend
Indo-US workshop on science and technology to counter terrorism.
The workshop is organised by Indian Institute of Advance science
at Taj Exotica in South Goa. This will be his first function
after he lands in Goa.
On January 13, President will launch a distance education
programme which would be taken up in collaboration with IIT-Mumbai
and Goa University. This will follow, launching of Goa Education
Development Corporation. The corporation is carved to attract
high quality technical education in the state.
President Kalam will also visit South Goa where he would
have aerial survey of area where two rivers are linked. While
project linking rivers is prioritised by NDA government, Goa
government has already linked two rivers to fulfill the requirement
of drinking water in its Opa water treatment plant.
He would be taken on the spot in Helicopter. On January 13
evening, he will further proceed to Bangalore.
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