President meets BPO employees

President Ram Nath Kovind today visited a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) unit on the campus of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Education City at Jawanga village in Dantewada district.

Interacting with employees of the unit, Kovind said youths working in the BPO in Dantewada were in no way less than those who have passed out from public schools and who live in cities, an official release here said.

Chief Minister Raman Singh accompanied the president.

Earlier, the president met Divyang (differently abled) students of Saksham school and students of Astha Vidya Mandir on the Education City campus.

He announced that musical instruments will be distributed to visually impaired students, the release said.

He also visited the Braille library on the campus. Some visually impaired students handed over a letter written in braille to him.

The president, who is on a two-day visit to the Naxal-affected Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, will dedicate the newly-built Medical College Hospital in Jagdalpur to the nation tomorrow.

He will also launch Sanchar Kranti Yojna of the state government under which 50 lakh smartphones will be distributed free to students and women.