President Pranab Mukherjee will visit Jharkhand for two days from January nine. He will address a university convocation and inaugurate the annual conference of Bengali literary personages, the first of which was presided over by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

The President will also inaugurate an art gallery, lay the foundation stone of a technical university and address the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of Birla Institute of Technology at BIT-Mesra.

On January nine, the President will attend the seventh convocation of Vinoba Bhave University at Hazaribagh, besides inaugurating Art Gallery at Audrey House at Ranchi, an official said. He will also lay the foundation stone of Jharkhand Technical University through video conferencing the same day.

He will inaugurate the Annual Conference of Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan at Khelgaon, Hotwar and Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of Birla Institute of Technology on January 10 before returning to Delhi.