Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the inaugural address at the 105th session of the Indian Science Congress, at Manipur University in Imphal on March 16.
Imphal will become the second city in the Northeast to host this prestigious event after Shillong 2009.
At the Luwangpokpa Multi Sports Complex in Luwangsangbam, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of the National Sports University, 1000 Anganwadi Centres, 19 residential complexes for teachers, doctors and nurses, and other development projects.
He will also inaugurate the Luwangpokpa Multi Sports Complex, Rani Gaidinliu Park, and other development projects.
He will address a gathering, stated a press communiqué from PMO.
Around 5000 to 6000 delegates from different parts of the country and abroad including Nobel laureates are expected to attend the event.