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Prez to attend Wardha Shikshan Mandal centenary event tomorrow

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Press Trust of India Nagpur
President Pranab Mukherjee will be the chief guest at the centenary celebration function of Wardha Shikshan Mandal, to be held in the neighbouring district tomorrow.

The institution had been founded by late Jamnalal Bajaj and Shrikrishnadas Jajoo in 1914, and currently manages six educational institutions at Wardha and a commerce college at Nagpur.

The President will arrive here tomorrow from Pune and will proceed to Wardha by a helicopter.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister for Transport and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari will accompany him from the city.

State Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao would preside over at the event.
 

The President will visit Bajajwadi, built by late Jamnalal Bajaj, which had hosted Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose during Gandhi's initial stay there.

He will also visit the famous Sewagram Ashram of the Mahatma before returning to Wardha and then fly to New Delhi in the evening, a state release said.

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First Published: Nov 25 2014 | 7:08 PM IST

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