President Pranab Mukherjee will begin a two-day visit to Odisha Friday, a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said.

The president will Saturday attend the convocation ceremonies of the Indian Institute of Technology - Bhubaneswar and the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Centre for Communication and Management.

"He will dedicate the Ramakrishnan Knowledge Centre, the library at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, to the people of Bhubaneswar," said the statement.