Guwahati: President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday virtually inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for various projects from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati.
These include the 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 the 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, IIT Guwahati director T G Sitharam and other dignitaries.
The President is on a two-day visit to Assam and it will conclude on Friday.