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President to visit State tomorrow

By STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, May 11 � President Pranab Mukherjee will visit Assam on May 13 which will be his first visit to the State after assuming office of the President.

Mukherjee will confer the Asom Ratna Award for the year 2012 posthumously on Mamoni Raisom Goswami and will also give away the Srimanta Sankardeva Award for the year 2008 to popular film actress Sharmila Tagore.

Governor JB Patnaik, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and Minister for Cultural Affairs Pranati Phukan will also be present at the award ceremony to be held at Pragjyoti, ITA Centre for Performing Arts at Machkhowa from 4 pm on May 13.

The President is also scheduled to attend the closing ceremony of the golden jubilee celebration of Pandu College on the same day. He will then leave for Silchar where he will address the 13th annual convocation of Assam University.

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