President on 5-day visit to North-East from tomorrow

New Delhi, Oct 18 (UNI) President Pratibha Patil will undertake a five-day visit to Assam and Meghalaya from tomorrow.

The President, who will arrive in Guwahati tomorrow afternoon, will give away the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Awards to actor Shabana Azmi and Editor-in-chief of Indian Express Shekhar Gupta at a function.

On Monday, she will give away the Nirmal Gram Puraskar for the North-East region and later lay the foundation stone for Tezpur Medical College.

Ms Patil will arrive in the Meghalaya capital on October 22 where she will lay the foundation stone of the third phase of the Greater Shillong Water Supply project on the same day.

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