Shimilipal, 5/5: President Droupadi Murmu on Friday visited Similipal National Park and undertook a safari.
Murmu, who stayed at her house in Rairangpur on Thursday night, started the second day of her Mayurbhanj visit by paying tributes to Pandit Raghunath Murmu, the inventor of Ol Chiki script of Santali language, at his birthplace Dandabosh village on the occasion of his birth anniversary.
Droupadi Murmu, the first tribal president of the country, belongs to the Santal tribe.
The Odisha government, which had supported Murmu’s presidential candidature last year, has announced a Rs 10 crore package for development of the Pandit Raghunath Murmu Memorial.
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