President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate the 12th World Lake Conference at Jaipur on 29 October. This is the first time that this conference is being held in the South Asian region.

The president will arrive in Jaipur on the evening of 28 October and return to New Delhi the next day after inaugurating the conference.

The conference will be attended by experts from around the world and will discuss conservation of lakes as water bodies.

This will be the President Patil''s first visit to Rajasthan being sworn-in in July this year. She was earlier governor of Rajasthan, prior to her elevation to Rashtrapati Bhavan.