Saturday, 8 October 2016

President inaugurates military station in Bengal

President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday inaugurated a new military station in Murshidabad district in West Bengal.

"President of India inaugurated newly developed military station at Nabagram, WB," the Eastern Command tweeted.

It is being built as a model military station over an area of 252 acres.


The President had laid the foundation stone of the project in 2014.

Mukherjee, who is on a five-day visit to West Bengal also attended a felicitation programme in neighbouring Birbhum district headquarters Suri.

At Suri, he also formally rechristened a road after his freedom fighter father Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee.
-Source IANS