President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam will make a PowerPoint presentation when he addresses the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
This is the second time in the AP Assembly's 48-year history that a special address by the President is being arranged for the members. Back in 1978, the then president Neelam Sanjiva Reddy had addressed a joint sitting of the state legislature (it then had Legislative Council as well).
President Kalam, who is arriving in the city on a day's visit on Wednesday, is scheduled to address the assembly at 1215 IST. It will be a half-an-hour address.
The President will later interact with the legislators and answer their queries for 30 minutes. One or two members from each political party will be allowed to pose questions to him.
After getting a letter from the Rashtrapati Bhavan seeking arrangements for a PowerPoint presentation by Dr Kalam, the legislature secretariat is putting up two big screens -- on either side of the speaker's podium. The President will be flanked by State Governor Surjit Singh Barnala and Assembly Speaker K R Suresh Reddy during his address.
Tight security arrangements are being made in Hyderabad for the President's visit.
Entry passes, except those for essential personnel, are being suspended for the duration of the President's visit to the House.
Fifty students (25 girls and 25 boys) will be allowed into the visitors' gallery to listen to the President's address. A select group of 25 sarpanches and freedom fighters will be special invitees. VIPs, including Union ministers and members of Parliament, will be accommodated in the speaker's gallery.
The other engagements of the President in the city include a programme organised by Lead India Organisation at Narayanamma Institute of Technology at Sheikpet, inaugural function of CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre
near Hitec City and a meeting at TCS Deccanpark, Madhapur.
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