By Our Correspondent
BARIPADA/BHUBANESWAR: President Droupadi Murmu on Friday visited Similipal National Park and spent few hours amidst natural beauty on the second day of her Odisha visit.
She undertook a safari for which Forest department made elaborate arrangements. Her visit to Similipal was the first by any President of India.
She also visited Chahala in the core area, where she was served local tribal food and then taken to a guided to see deer, sambhar and elephants.
“President Droupadi Murmu visited Similipal Tiger Reserve in Mayurbhanj, Odisha. A place with rich biodiversity and wildlife, the tiger reserve is the only natural habitat in the world to protect the rare melanistic tigers popularly known as the black tigers,” Rashtrapati Bhawan said in a tweet.
The national park has been made out of bounds for visitors for two days from May 4 in view of the President’s visit. After her return from Similipal, she is scheduled to visit Baripada, where she will spend the night and attend the convocation of Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University on Saturday before flying back to Delhi.
