He was received at the airport by the Governor Surjit Singh Barnala, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Assembly Speaker K Pratibha Bharati, city mayor T Krishna Reddy, military and civil officials. Later, the President drove to Raj Bhavan where he will stay for the night. Tomorrow, in the morning the President will inaugurate the International Conference on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants being organised by the Swamy Ramanand Tirtha Institute, whose chairman, the former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao will preside, an official release said here. Kalam will also visit the country's premier Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) and from there he will proceed to Balayogi Indoor Stadium at Gachibowli where he will release a reading aid for the blind. In the evening, the President will visit the Moulana Abul Kalam Azad National Urdu University at the outskirts of the city and from there he would visit the Rashtrapati Nilayam in Bolarum area before leaving for New Delhi at 7.05 pm, the release added.

Bureau Report