President Ram Nath Kovind arrived in Goa on Tuesday on a two-day visit to the coastal state. He will lay the foundation stone of the new Raj Bhavan building on Wednesday morning in Dona Paula area near the state capital Panaji, a government official said.
On Tuesday, Goa Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, Union Minister of State for Tourism Shripad Naik, Goa Protocol Minister Mauvin Godinho, and other leaders received Kovind at the Dabolim airport in the state, he said.
From the airport, Kovind went to the Raj Bhavan at Dona Paula where he would stay tonight, the official said.
