The students were elated and excited a lot as they got the lifetime opportunity to interact with the President of India.
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President Murmu, on the second day of trip to her home State, reminisced her nostalgic school days by paying a visit to her alma maters- in Bhubaneswar.
The country’s first citizen was accorded a warm and rousing welcome at Government High School, Unit II and Tapoban High School (managed by State’s SC, ST Development Department) where she studied in the seventies. Governor Professor Ganeshi Lal, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and other delegates accompanied the President as she went to the school classrooms and hostel.
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The students were elated and excited a lot as they got the lifetime opportunity to interact with the President of India.
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“I am very happy visiting the Kuntala Kumari Sabat Tribal Girls Hostel. The visit to the hostel has enlivened cherished memories of my student life. I got emotional during interaction with inmates of the hostel and teachers of the school. It is a matter of satisfaction that students have been provided a safe, hygienic and homely environment,” Murmu wrote in the visitors’ register.
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