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Thailand Princess to visit Puducherry & Auroville
Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Mon 17 Mar 2008 03:34 PM PDT
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Thailand Princess to visit Puducherry
Puducherry (PTI): Princess of Thailand Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will arrive here on March 21 on a one-day visit to the town.
The Princess would visit the Village Resource Centre (VRC) of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) at Pillayarkuppam, one of the bio-villages of the foundation, and acquaint herself with the works and activities of the centre, official sources said on Thursday.
She would wrap up her prgrammes with a visit to the Auroville, a universal township, near here.
VRC is the hub of information and from there details of farm related works, market and price situation of the produce and other particulars are being disseminated through Information Communication Technology mode to 16 knowledge centres instituted in different villages in Puducherry to benefit the targetted sections of villagers and farmers.Attachment:
