President Droupadi Murmu virtually inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for various projects today from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
These include inauguration of the supercomputer facility, 'Param Kamrupa', under the National Supercomputing Mission, and a laboratory for the design and development of high power microwave components at IIT Guwahati.
Murmu also virtually inaugurated the Dhubri Medical College and Hospital in Assam and laid the foundation stones for the zonal institutes of National Institute of Virology at Dibrugarh and Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.
She was accompanied by Governor Jagdish Mukhi, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union minister Bharati Pravin Pawar, II Guwahati director T G Sitharam and other dignitaries.
The President is on a two-day visit to Assam and it will conclude on Friday.
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