Prez Murmu inaugurates supercomputer facility 'Param Kamrupa' at IIT Guwahati

President Droupadi Murmu, who is on a maiden visit to Assam, virtually inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for various projects of the state. 

President Droupadi Murmu virtually inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for various projects on Thursday from the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. She inaugurated the supercomputer facility, ‘Param Kamrupa’, under the National Supercomputing Mission, and a laboratory for the design and development of high-power microwave components at IIT Guwahati. 

Murmu also virtually inaugurated the Dhubri Medical College and Hospital in Assam and laid the foundation stones for the zonal institutes of the National Institute of Virology at Dibrugarh and Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. 

She was accompanied by Governor Jagdish Mukhi, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union minister Bharati Pravin Pawar, II Guwahati Director TG Sitharam and other dignitaries. The President is on a two-day visit to Assam and it will conclude on Friday. 

Need to promote a knowledge-based society: Murmu 

Murmu stressed the need to promote a knowledge-based society and the importance of technological solutions to the problems of the country.  

She said, “Being the only IIT in the North East, it must shoulder the responsibility to nurture other institutes in the region to work with the state government and defence forces to strengthen our borders and provide technological solutions to prevent recurrence of natural calamities in the region.” Murmu also exhorted the people of the Northeastern region to play a leading role in creating a knowledge-based society. 

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