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The authorities is gearing up for an extraordinarily hectic, year-ending week ahead, that volition see visits by Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan and Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, amidst an anticipated upsurge successful tourer arrivals for the New Year celebrations.
Mr. Radhakrishnan, whose accomplishment connected December 29 (Monday), marks his archetypal sojourn to the metropolis since assuming the bureau of the Vice-President successful September, and a instrumentality to a spot wherever helium antecedently served arsenic the Lieutenant Governor (March 19, 2024 to August 6, 2024).
In March 2024, Mr. Radhakrishnan, who was past Jharkhand Governor, was fixed further complaint of the Union Territory and the Telangana governorship. In July, helium was appointed Governor of Maharashtra and a mates of months aboriginal elected to the station of Vice-President.
According to sources, the Vice-President volition beryllium accorded a civic reception astatine an lawsuit scheduled successful Kamban Kalaiarangam. At the aforesaid function, helium volition administer keys to tenement dwellers successful Kumaragurupallam who were relocated to a 216-unit flat analyzable nether the Smart City project.
Thereafter, Mr. Radhakrishnan volition enactment arsenic the main impermanent successful the 30th convocation ceremonial of Pondicherry University scheduled astatine the newly-built International Convention Centre (ICC) of the institution. The Vice-President, who is besides the ex-officio Chancellor of the Pondicherry University, volition formally unfastened the ICC analyzable with a capableness to accommodate 2,500 persons and present the convocation address. He is besides scheduled to dedicate a 100-foot-tall flagpole for hoisting the National Flag connected the campus, according to the Pondicherry University.
The convocation is being held for the world years 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 successful which a full of 73,527 candidates volition beryllium conferred with their degrees successful assorted disciplines. Around 746 candidates volition beryllium awarded Ph.D. degrees and golden medals volition beryllium presented successful idiosyncratic to 191 toppers from 2021, 191 candidates from 2022, 192 from 2023 and 186 from 2024 crossed assorted disciplines, including UG and PG programmes.
Mr. Rai, who arrives connected Friday nighttime connected a two-day visit, is expected to enactment successful a mates of nationalist events connected Saturday and volition clasp a reappraisal of flagship schemes astatine the Chief Secretariat. He is besides expected to wage a sojourn to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
On Wednesday, Chief Minister N. Rangasamy chaired a high-level consultation regarding the information measures for the sojourn of the Vice-President. The gathering besides reviewed arrangements for the anticipated summation successful tourer footfalls for the New Year celebrations. Incidentally, the Chief Minister is hosting luncheons for some Mr. Radhakrishnan connected Monday and Mr. Rai connected Saturday.
Speaker R. Selvam, Home Minister A. Namassivayam, Public Works Minister K. Lakshminarayanan, Chief Secretary Sharat Chauhan, Government Secretaries A. Muthamma, R. Kesavan, Mohammed Ahsan Abid, Chaudhary Mohammed Yasin and District Collector A. Kulothungan participated.
Others who attended the gathering were R. Kalaivanan, Senior Superintendent of Police (Law & Order), Chintha Kothandaraman, A. Subramanian, R. Ragunathan and Rachana Singh, Superintendents of Police, K. Veeraselvam, PWD Chief Engineer, Mathew Francis, Director of Information and Publicity, K. Muralidharan, Director of Tourism, J. Ramesh, Medical Superintendent of Indira Gandhi Government General Hospital and Post Graduate Institute, M. Kandasamy, Commissioner of Pondicherry Municipality, A. Suresh Raj, Commissioner, Oulgaret Municipality and K. Ilango, Divisional Fire Officer.
