Prez opens Rashtrapati Niketan in Dehradun

President Droupadi Murmu Friday formally opened a renovated Presidential Retreat in Dehradun on her 67th birthday and addressed visually impaired children at a facility.

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The President, who is on a three-day visit to Uttarakhand that began Thursday, also laid the foundation stone for Rashtrapati Udyan, a 132-acre public garden on the campus of the Presidential Retreat, now renamed Rashtrapati Niketan.

While she was at the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities (NIEPVD) here, the president was moved to tears when a group of visually impaired children sang for her on her birthday. The President said she got emotional as the children sang beautifully. "I could not hold back my tears. They were singing so beautifully. They were singing from their heart," she said.