LUCKNOW, May 8 -- World Bank president Ajay Banga will be on a day's visit to the state capital on Friday, said a U.P. government spokesperson.

Besides participating in a series of meetings and programmes, including a roundtable discussion with stakeholders in the presence of chief secretary Manoj Kumar Singh at a hotel here, he will also meet chief minister Yogi Adityanath at the latter's residence at Kalidas Marg for a discussion and dinner.

He will visit the Take-Home Ration (THR) plant in Chinhat block where he will review the plant's operations and learn about initiatives aimed at improving nutrition.

Banga will thereafter proceed to Rajouli in Barabanki, where he will tour a beekeeping centre and interact with women self-help gro...