President Ram Nath Kovind visits Rabindranath Tagore’s birthplace Jorsanko, Bose Institute

"Our greatest tribute to Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose would be to embrace this new era of innovation and discovery just as we embraced and led the process of innovation and discovery a century ago," says President Ram Natjh Kovind.

Updated: November 29, 2017 13:27 IST

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President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday, visited Jorasank, Rabindranath Tagore's ancestral house in Kolkata. He later went on to attend the centenary celebrations of Bose Institute. President Kovind said that Bengal was a "slow starter" in IT revolution of the country and asked Bengal scientists to embrace the new era of innovation and discovery. (Express photo: Partha Paul)

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President Kovind at Jorasank, Rabindranath Tagore's ancestral house in Kolkata. (Express photo: Partha Paul)

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President Ram Nath Kovind receives flowers from Vice Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury along with State Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi during his visit to the house of Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata on Wednesday. (Express photo: Partha Paul)

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The President attended the event at Bose Institute after paying a visit to Jorasanko (birth place of Rabindranath Tagore) and Netaji Bhawan in the morning. (Express photo: Partha Paul)

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"Bengal was India's earliest industrial and manufacturing economy. With that legacy and with its educational institutions it should have led the IT revolution all over the country. But for whatever reasons it was a slow starter in IT and IT enabled services. That boom moved to other states such in those south of the country," Kovind said. (Express photo: Partha Paul)

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President Kovind urged Bengal scientists to embrace new era of innovation and discovery. "Now Bengal has another chance. We are in the midst of an explosion of digital technologies and cutting-edge disciplines. Our greatest tribute to Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose would be embrace this new era of innovation and discovery just as we embraced and led the process of innovation and discovery a century ago," he said (Express photo: Partha Paul)