Assam: President Flags off Several Projects Across the State

GUWAHATI: Dropodi Murmu, the President of India visit the IIT Guwahati campus on Thursday as a part of their visit to Northeast India. She was inaugurating Param Kamrupa, a newly developed supercomputer facility in the premises of IIT Guwahati. She was accompanied by the Governor and the Chief Minister of Assam.

Speaking on the occasion she urged the researchers to work towards developing new technology and create more avenues for development in the country. Congratulating IIT Guwahati on its achievements in the research sector, she mentioned its responsibility to innovate technology aimed at solving problems unique to the region.

She also inaugurated a high-power active and passive component laboratory developed for SAMEER. SAMEER is an acronym for the Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research. Headquartered in Mumbai, it is a research & development institute created under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It operates to promote research in the fields of radio frequency and microwave electronics, electro-magnetics, optoelectronics, millimetre wave technology and allied areas and their implementation in different fields.

She dedicated the Dhubri Medical College and Hospital to the public through a virtual event from IITG campus. She commended the work done by the Assam government in the medical sector of the state. Emphasis was given to the establishment of new medical facilities, especially in the field of cancer. She also virtually laid the foundations for two zonal institutes for the National Institute of Virology. One will be in Dibrugarh of Assam and the other in Jabalpur of Madhya Pradesh.

She also visited the iconic Kamakhya Temple located in the state capital. And Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted about the visit to the temple.

She will flag off and lay the foundation stones for several projects during her two-day visit to Assam. These include Anganwadi centres, schools, fuel depots, highway projects and railway networks across the state and even beyond.

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