President to visit Allahabad tomorrow

President Pranab Mukherjee will visit Allahabad tomorrow when he will inaugurate the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Allahabad High Court.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces came into existence at Agra under a Letters Patent of March 17, 1866.
The seat of the High Court was shifted from Agra to Allahabad in 1869 and its designation was altered to the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad by a supplementary Letters Patent issued on March 11, 1919.
In the second leg of his tour, the President will arrive
in Ivory Coast which had gone through a period of turmoil in the last decade.

"In 2011, a new government has come in and there has been a national reconciliation... With Ivory Coast, since this is the first visit, I guess the difference of languages must have dissuaded other higher level visits because it is one of the francophone countries," Sinha said.

Mukherjee will be received by President Alassane Ouattara himself at the airport.
He might be honoured with the highest award of that country, besides a symbolic handing over of key of Abidjan city.
"...Exim Bank, is going to re-open its office. It was relocated to Dakar during the civil war, so they have now got all the permissions and are relocating to Ivory Coast. This is their regional office is West Africa to monitor all the lines of credit that we have," he said.

Ivory Coast, a francophone country, is the biggest producer and exporter of cashew nuts to India which procures nearly 80 per cent of its total exports of cashew nuts.
The final stop will be Windhoek, capital of Namibia, where Mukherjee will meet President Sam Nujoma.
Namibia is a mineral and mining driven economy and India is likely to offer mining engineering training.
"The mining sector contributes roughly 10 or 11 per cent of the GDP but it gets them 50 per cent of their foreign exchange earnings so they are highly dependent on that. It is a small country with a population of around 2.5 or three millions," Sinha said.

India is likely to sign four MoUs on deputation of Indian Army for training purposes to Namibian Defence Forces and establishment of a Centre of Excellence in Information Technology which they need.
"Then there will be an MoU between Namibian Institute of Public Administration and Management and our own IIM Ahmedabad and also between their Public Administration and our Lal Bahadur Shashtri Academy which trains civil servants because they are focused on developing their own capacities," he said.